[PATCH] [PPC64] [1/2] IOMMU cleanups: rename pci_dma_direct.c
Olof Johansson
olof at austin.ibm.com
Thu Jan 6 11:26:31 EST 2005
Andrew Morton wrote:
>Olof Johansson <olof at austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
>>This is part of the iommu cleanup, but broken out as a separate patch
>> since for mainline, a BK rename is more appropriate. Still, we need a
>> patch to apply for non-BK-based trees (-mm)
>>
>>
>
>It's not clear to me what this comment means. Is this patch for upstream
>merging?
>
>bk is fairly good at detecting when a gnu patch is simply performing a
>rename and will convert it into a `bk mv'.
>
Ah, I didn't know that it was that clever. If so, it's good for upstream
merging. Otherwise I would have recommended a manual bk mv upstream,
that's what the comment referred to.
-Olof
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