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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces
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?

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