Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2007 12:37:21 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces |
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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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