From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758704AbZBSMsT (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:48:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753202AbZBSMsA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:48:00 -0500 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:40623 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752020AbZBSMr7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:47:59 -0500 Message-ID: <499D54F6.7000108@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:47:50 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yang Hongyang CC: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 00/11]Get rid of all the old macro DMA_nBIT_MASK and use DMA_BIT_MASK(n) instead References: <499CFDC8.1070600@cn.fujitsu.com> <499D0221.9090407@cn.fujitsu.com> <20090219081403.GA5400@elte.hu> <499D1ED9.4040005@cn.fujitsu.com> <499D2728.1080208@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <499D2728.1080208@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yang Hongyang wrote: > v1->v2:fix s/micro/macro typo and keep the old defines > of DMA_nBIT_MASK > ---------------------- > Replace all DMA_nBIT_MASK macro with the new DMA_BIT_MASK(n) macro > > 01:Replace all DMA_64BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(64) > 02:Replace all DMA_48BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(48) > 03:Replace all DMA_40BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(40) > 04:Replace all DMA_39BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(39) > 05:Replace all DMA_35BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(35) > 06:Replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32) > 07:Replace all DMA_31BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(31) > 08:Replace all DMA_30BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(30) > 09:Replace all DMA_28BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(28) > 10:Replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24) > 11:Update the old macro DMA_nBIT_MASK related documentations > Shouldn't you organize the patch series per subsystem, not per old macro? And then Cc the respective maintainers? As it stands, the patches cannot be routed through the normal channels; yet there is no fundamental reason to handle these patches differently from normal patches. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= --=- =--== http://arcgraph.de/sr/