Message-ID: <464A1D35.8030701@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:51:01 -0700
From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, gregkh@suse.de
CC: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>, cramerj@intel.com,
       john.ronciak@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
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       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:50:27 +0200
> "Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@amd.com> wrote:
> 
>> This patch set introduces a PCI-X / PCI-Express read byte count control 
>> interface. Instead of letting every driver to directly read/write to PCI 
>> config space for that, an interface is provided. The interface functions then 
>> can be used for quirks since some PCI bridges require that read byte count 
>> values are set by the BIOS and left unchanged by device drivers.
> 
> Some of the patches were wordwrapped, which I fixed.
> 
> The way we would merge a feature like this is
> 
> - get maintainers to review-and-ack the change
> 
> - merge the core patch into Greg's PCI tree and later into
>   mainline.
> 
> - Once the base infrastructure is in mainline, feed the per-driver
>   changes into the tree via the appropriate maintainers.
> 
> This takes, umm, months and consumes quite a bit of my time.  I'm becoming
> inclined just to slam stuff like this straight in as you've proposed, but
> for now, let's play the game - I split the patches up appropriately.  I
> don't think there's any particular urgency behind this, is there?

While Jeff just Acked the changes to e1000-specific for me, I think this is a 
good approach and would appreciate it. I'll be happy to pull the change and push 
it through in due time.

Auke

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