Re: [PATCH 3/3] perfmon x86 infra(take 2): add AMD Northbridge PCI Id

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:10:41PM -0700, stephane eranian wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:50:36AM -0700, stephane eranian wrote:
> >  > Greg,
> >  >
> >  > Ingo suggested I send ou the following patch which adds a PCI ID
> >  > for AMD Barcelona Northbridge. This is used by the perfmon initialization
> >  > code on this platform.
> >  >
> >  > Please apply to your tree.
> >
> >  We are trying to not add pci ids that are only used in one place within
> >  the kernel.  Why can't the perfomon init code just add this value to
> >  their code?
> >
> I thought you would want a central place where all PCI ids are defined.
> But if you prefer not, then so be it. I'll put it into the perfmon code.
> 
> >  Or make this part of the perfmon patch itself, if you really must have
> >  it.  No need to add it to the kernel if there are no in-tree users,
> >  right?
> >
> I am starting to push perfmon patches upstream. So you should expect
> patches which  *currently* have no in-tree users. You have to start from
> somewhere, right?

Submit them at the same time, is that a problem?  We don't want to be
accepting changes for an out-of-tree user that doesn't make it in :)

thanks,

greg k-h