Am Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007 21:37:21 schrieb Andrew Morton: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:50:27 +0200 > > "Peter Oruba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I cannot tell how common AM8131 based systems in combination with one of these three devices actually are. However, this patch set is essential for those systems. -- AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG Operating System Research Center Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896 General Partner authorized to represent: AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
