On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:18:56PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, i need to cleanup still the via-ide driver kludge i have there. > Still, i believe it breaks nothing on ppc since we probably are the only > one using via-ide there, but i wouldn't bet on that this kludge would > ever be accepted in the mainline kernels, nor that it would not break > stuff on non-ppc (well, x86 mostly).
The via changes are almost guaranteed to break on x86. Any reason you can't simply assign the irqs in the arch-specific pci fixups code so the driver doesn't need to mess it? That's the way we usually deal with broken plattforms in linux. > More problematic will be the upcoming gigabit ethernet patch for the > discovery II, which break the existing (2.4) mips driver. Which driver is that? Have you talked to Ralf Baechle to get your changes tested on mips? This is what really *fucking* annoys me. This I'm lazy and unable to talk to someone else mentality that get us tons of cludges instead of working together. > This should be > ok for a debian/ppc patch, but not for the mainstream kernel. Naturally, > more work needs to be done to have this integrable upstream, but well, i > guess you also don't know the answer on how to make the day have more > hours, do you ? It's pretty simple. By doing work right from the beginning. If you do thing sane from the start you'll have to care far less afterwards.
