Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752517AbYLQUHw (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:07:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751344AbYLQUHi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:07:38 -0500 Received: from outbound-mail-110.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.10]:43105 "HELO outbound-mail-110.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751276AbYLQUHi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:07:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:X-Identified-User; b=QOgxZmIs5l1iZZx39ff9lAVtLf1fRcD9yX3W9vQ4OAPtM32+5nNacv3ZSesfx9OCWl3rSuE6ZPZubHtJTFD5M9kau2CVe9jsHDZMRUvO9O2+lJwxV5UcmIzddLxa4TJ/; From: Jesse Barnes To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:07:32 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Rose, Gregory V" , Jike Song , "Zhao, Yu" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "achiang@hp.com" , "bjorn.helgaas@hp.com" , "grundler@parisc-linux.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , "matthew@wil.cx" , "randy.dunlap@oracle.com" , "rdreier@cisco.com" , "horms@verge.net.au" , "yinghai@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" References: <20081121183605.GA7810@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> <200812171142.56170.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <20081217195143.GA25211@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20081217195143.GA25211@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812171207.34396.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Identified-User: {642:box128.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.27.49 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:51 am Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:42:54AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > I really don't want the SR-IOV stuff to sit out another merge cycle > > though... Arg. > > Why, is there some rush to get it in? As there is no in-kernel users of > it, I don't see the problem with postponing it until someone actually > needs it. Well it *does* make development of SR-IOV drivers that much harder. As you know, out of tree development is a pain. OTOH if any changes end up being required, they can be done before the code is merged. Anyway, hopefully we won't have to worry about it because some driver will come along soon that uses Yu's code. :) If not, Yu might have to maintain a separate git tree or something until the drivers are ready to be merged. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/