linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] Intel MIC Host Driver for X100 family.

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Message-ID: <20130801014512.GC6941@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:45:12 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	Caz Yokoyama <Caz.Yokoyama@...el.com>,
	Dasaratharaman Chandramouli 
	<dasaratharaman.chandramouli@...el.com>,
	Harshavardhan R Kharche <harshavardhan.r.kharche@...el.com>,
	"Yaozu (Eddie) Dong" <eddie.dong@...el.com>,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Intel MIC Host Driver for X100 family.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:31:32PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> This patch enables the following:
> a) Initializes the Intel MIC X100 PCIe devices.
> b) Boots and shuts down the card via sysfs entries.
> c) Allocates and maps a device page for communication with the
> card driver and updates the device page address via scratchpad
> registers.
> d) Provides sysfs entries for family, stepping, state, shutdown
> status, kernel command line, IP address, ramdisk and log buffer
> information.

That's a lot to do in one patch, almost 4 thousand lines.  Can't you
break this up into some more smaller, logical, and reviewable, pieces?

For example, I have no idea what b) is, and how to separate it from the
things you do for a) and c).

thanks,

greg k-h
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