On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:07:19 -0400 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The following patch implements the Xen pci backend for upstream Linux. > This is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in > drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by > frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs. > > This driver has a long history as an out of tree driver but I am > submitting it here as a single monolithic patch to aid review. Once it > has been reviewed and is considered suitable for merging can we perhaps > consider merging the equivalent git branch which maintains much of > history? It looks pretty clean at first glance (though 128k worth of patch isn't an ideal way to split it). But maybe the back end belongs in arch/x86/xen as it's really a arch specific PCI implementation at heart? I don't want to be a bottleneck for any Xen specific PCI patches in the future, and other arches have a similar split (though not always with an ideal core vs arch split). Figuring out some way to preserve the git history is probably a good idea, assuming it's not too much of a mess. If it is, a more reasonable split and history using rebase could probably be contrived before merging it. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
