netdev - Re: [GIT PULL, resend] async_tx/dmaengine update for 2.6.29

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:45:02 -0700
From:	"Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hskinnemoen@...el.com,
	maciej.sosnowski@...el.com, g.liakhovetski@....de,
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	s.hauer@...gutronix.de, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL, resend] async_tx/dmaengine update for 2.6.29

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
>>
>> net/core/dev.c                        |  149 +------
>> net/ipv4/tcp.c                        |    5 +-
>> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                  |    2 +-
>> net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c                   |    2 +-
>> net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c                   |    2 +-
>
> Wouldn't it be better for these changes to go through the net
> tree?
>

It was awkward to separate the reformatting of the core api from its
users.  In this exceptional case these changes were limited to areas
inside #ifdef CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE/CONFIG_NET_DMA.

In general, Maciej and I send purely incremental patches through the
net tree [1].

Regards,
Dan

[1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=649274d993212e7c23c0cb734572c2311c200872
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