From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030218AbWD0UKG (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:10:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030221AbWD0UKG (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:10:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:21122 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030218AbWD0UKD (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:10:03 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Heiko Joerg Schick Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:50:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4450B378.9000705@de.ibm.com> <20060427125726.GK32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508176ef.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Unison/1.7.5 Cc: openib-general@openib.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2006-04-27 14:57:26 +0200, Jörn Engel said: > 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. I don't like the idea to put the whole driver in one patch file. I would propose to put the patch "ehca: integration in Linux kernel" last instead of first, as Arnd mentioned. With that change we leave the kernel in a working state when applying the patches. Regards, Heiko