On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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.
Sure, that would be the right way i guess. I promise to do it once i get time allotment for that again, in the meantime the current code works and is of use to the pegasos users, so why keep it out. > > 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? The discovery II is a northbridge controller which has a mips and ppc version, and includes a gigabit ethernet controller, which has a (not sure it is working though) driver for mips in 2.4. I am right now more interested in having it working on ppc before contacting the mips folk though about this, all in due time. > 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. Well, since you started this thread doing the same, you can hardly blame me for it. Seriously though, i don't see what is your annoyance. It is a matter of work priority, and upto recently, it was more important to make sure the powerpc debian kernel worked on something else than just powermacs, and that debian-installer worked fine on powerpc. > > 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. Yeah sure, patches are welcome then :) And BTW, maybe the time you spent advocating a new centralized kernel package maintenance would have been better spent helping solve some of the known issue in the current powerpc kernel, and i didn't see you send us patches or try to help out on that account. Friendly, Sven Luther
