Powerpc PCI cleanups (mainly iSeries)

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Dec 10 01:40:33 EST 2007


On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:29:26 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 09:44 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:07:26 +1100
> > Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:00:45 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I started out looking for ways to remove our dependencies on pci_dn and
> > > > got sidetracked into clening up the iSeries PCI code.  The intention of
> > > > the following set of patches is that there be no semantic changes
> > > > (mostly).
> > > 
> > > Some of these will clearly conflict with Benh's PCI work.  We will sot
> > > that out between us.  :-)
> > 
> > In the meantime...
> > 
> > My tree is going to carry BenH's patches since they're obviously
> > important to 4xx.  If these conflicts get sorted out soon, that would
> > be good :).  At some point I'm going to start sending stuff to Paul.
> 
> The PCI merge serie of my patches shoudn't go through your tree (it's a
> separate serie from my 4xx stuff and isn't quite ready just yet...).

I wasn't talking about your series of 10 patches.  You'll have
conflicts in your series of 25 too, though those should be fairly minor.

josh



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