From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
"jeremy@goop.org" <jeremy@goop.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"konrad.wilk@oracle.com" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources on platform device.
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:33:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294756435.3831.5874.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2C76E9020000780002BB73@vpn.id2.novell.com>
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:27 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 11.01.11 at 15:18, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >> >> I'm mainly asking because if it really addresses some problem,
> >> >> then unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c
> >> >> in -unstable should probably get updated too.
> >> >
> >> > Assuming the pci_* interfaces exist back as far as we care about for
> >> > those drivers then I don't see why not to apply it.
> >>
> >> I checked back to .5, where they exist; the question is - how far
> >> back do we care?
> >
> > You mean 2.6.5? That's old enough to be the cut off IMHO.
> >
> > I'm not sure how much actual use these drivers get these days though.
>
> We're building ours from that code.
OK.
> Are you going to submit this for -unstable then too, or are you
> expecting me to do so?
Since you can build/test it for the cases you care about I think it
would be better if you did?
Ian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-11 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 11:50 Ian Campbell
2011-01-11 12:48 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2011-01-11 13:01 ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-11 14:10 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-11 14:18 ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-11 14:27 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-11 14:33 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
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