From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754805AbbJ1AiG (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:38:06 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44143 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754221AbbJ1AiD (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:38:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20151027.175443.140992924519172506.davem@davemloft.net> To: keith.busch@intel.com Cc: nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, willy@linux.intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, aik@ozlabs.ru, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, hch@infradead.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 v3] Fix NVMe driver support on Power with 32-bit DMA From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20151027223643.GA25332@localhost.localdomain> References: <20151026.182746.1323901353520152838.davem@davemloft.net> <20151027222010.GD7716@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20151027223643.GA25332@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.4 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Busch, Keith" Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:36:43 +0000 > If you're suggesting to compile-time break architectures that currently > work just fine with NVMe, let me stop you right there. Silently "working" without the architecture maintainer having to explicity look at the new interface and make sure his platform is implementing it properly is an extremely bad practice.