* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:04 pm Alex Chiang wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > I assume these patches will destroy Alex's > > > frequently-destroyed pci-hotplug-introduce-pci_slot.patch. > > > Ho hum. > > > > I took a quick scan, and yeah, they'll break my patch series, > > but I should be able to adapt. Ho hum indeed. > > > > More importantly though, I can't seem to get any help on the > > pseries front. Benjamin Herrenschmidt is too busy, and I > > haven't heard a single peep from the IBM fellow (Mike Mason). > > > > Any suggestions on how to move forward? My fixup patch did > > fix Badari's original oops in a syntactically sane manner; it > > was the semantics that were a bit trickier. > > > > Perhaps we could roll that last fixup patch into the series, > > aim for the next merge window, and see who complains? > > Obviously I'd work any issues that would pop up, and we could > > always revert it as a last resort. > > > > Or is that idea too sloppy for mainline? > > Assuming Kenji-san & Kristen are ok with your slot patches, we > can push them in during the 2.6.27 merge window and see who > screams. If things look like they'll take too long to fix, we > can always revert, but I think it's more likely that we can fix > anything that comes up... > > Which means I'll need a new patch set from you, Alex, against > the linux-next branch. I'll stuff them in once I get acks from > Kenji & Kristen. Sounds good. I'll work on refreshing the series and send them over to you. In the meantime, if BenH sends review comments, I'll incorporate them as well. Thanks. /ac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
