Re: [PATCH 1/5] Intel MIC Host Driver for X100 family.

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On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 18:45 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:31:32PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > This patch enables the following:
> > a) Initializes the Intel MIC X100 PCIe devices.
> > b) Boots and shuts down the card via sysfs entries.
> > c) Allocates and maps a device page for communication with the
> > card driver and updates the device page address via scratchpad
> > registers.
> > d) Provides sysfs entries for family, stepping, state, shutdown
> > status, kernel command line, IP address, ramdisk and log buffer
> > information.
> 
> That's a lot to do in one patch, almost 4 thousand lines.  Can't you
> break this up into some more smaller, logical, and reviewable, pieces?
> 

Sure, we have started working on breaking up patch1 into smaller pieces.
The next revision will have these changes.
Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt

> For example, I have no idea what b) is, and how to separate it from the
> things you do for a) and c).
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h



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