From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932515AbXCVWCt (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:02:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934240AbXCVWCt (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:02:49 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:39481 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932562AbXCVWCs (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:02:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/21] MSI rework From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Greg KH Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Michael Ellerman , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , daniel.e.wolstenholme@intel.com In-Reply-To: <20070322190834.GA14802@kroah.com> References: <1174560686.307511.956605711793.qpush@cradle> <20070322190834.GA14802@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:02:16 +1100 Message-Id: <1174600936.10836.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > i.e. First the simple bug fixes that should purely be restructure of > > msi.c with no affect on anything outside of it. > > > > And then get into the architecture enhancements. > > I agree, care to break these down into a smaller series of patches that > can go into -mm for testing? I don't see the point in breaking the serie... you can bisect half way through if necessary... it's made of small patches that are done, afaik, in such a way that the whole thing should still work at any level in the serie. The serie just expresses the dependency between them. Ben.