netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/8][BNX2X] resubmit as attachments: add bnx2x to Kconfig and Makefile

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Message-ID: <470AFFE3.100@broadcom.com>
Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:13:23 +0200
From:	"Eliezer Tamir" <eliezert@...adcom.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8][BNX2X] resubmit as attachments: add bnx2x to
 Kconfig and Makefile

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Eliezer Tamir" <eliezert@...adcom.com>
> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:15:17 +0200
> 
>> Add bnx2x to Kconfig and Makefile
> 
> In a patch submission, the tree should build on every step along the
> way in applying your patches, with any given configuration.
> 
> Here, the user (or something automated like "make allmodconfig") can
> select the new config option, but because the driver source hasn't
> been added, the compile will fail.
> 
> The idea is that if your patch set really is composed of logically
> seperate changes, you submit them one logical compilable piece at a
> time, and if the first few patches are ok, they could go right in
> whilst we work out issues in later patches.  But that's not how
> a new driver is, it is logically one change only.
> 
> You go on next to add a foo.c file, and then a foo.h file.
> This makes things even more difficult to review.
> 
> Really, for a new driver that doesn't make any generic kernel code
> changes, just submit the whole thing in one shot.  It's the only
> reasonable way.
> 
> Thank you.
> 

Due to the size of the patch I can not post it to the list.

Here is an FTP link.
ftp://Net_sys_anon@...1.broadcom.com/bnx2x-0.40.10-net-2.6.24-one.patch.txt

Or if you prefer, I can post it gzipped.

Thanks
Eliezer


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