Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:16:32 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL, resend] async_tx/dmaengine update for 2.6.29 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:45:02 -0700
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > > Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote: > >> > >> net/core/dev.c | 149 +------ > >> net/ipv4/tcp.c | 5 +- > >> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +- > >> net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +- > >> net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +- > > > > Wouldn't it be better for these changes to go through the net > > tree? > > > > It was awkward to separate the reformatting of the core api from its > users. In this exceptional case these changes were limited to areas > inside #ifdef CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE/CONFIG_NET_DMA. > > In general, Maciej and I send purely incremental patches through the > net tree [1].
Yes, I think in this case it didn't make much sense to send the changes via the net tree.
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