From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965185AbWECMni (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 08:43:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965184AbWECMni (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 08:43:38 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:7069 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965185AbWECMng convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 08:43:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 05:43:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SvZybg==?= Engel Cc: schihei@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, MEDER@de.ibm.com, RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, schickhj@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver Message-Id: <20060503054312.b3978297.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060427125726.GK32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <4450B378.9000705@de.ibm.com> <20060427125726.GK32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:57:26 +0200 Jörn Engel wrote: > Don't expect much cheer and rejoicing over this. I suspect that akpm > or Linus will either want the 17 patches merged into one or have a > patchset where every single patch leaves the kernel in a working > state, including working eHCA driver. It doesn't matter in this case. The "don't break the build at any stage of a series" preference exists because it's extremely irritating to hit a won't-build in the middle of a git-bisect operation. But anybody who is bisection searching for a bug won't want to enable a brand-new driver in their config, so no problems.