From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755129AbbJ1Ane (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:43:34 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44183 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755110AbbJ1Anc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:43:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20151027.180011.1597667162481700758.davem@davemloft.net> To: julian.calaby@gmail.com Cc: nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, willy@linux.intel.com, keith.busch@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: References: <20151027234018.GA48779@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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 17:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julian Calaby Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:43:35 +1100 > You'll be CCing the maintainers of each architecture on the patches to > add the functions, so if they do have specific requirements, I'm sure > they'll let you know or provide patches. People miss things, maintainers get busy, so while a CC: is important and appreciated, it doesn't ensure a correct implementation is likely to result. Personally, I'd much rather my arch stop building so I have to go in there to explicitly look at the reason why and make sure I fill in the missing pieces properly and accurately.