On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:03:45AM +0200, Ruud wrote: > Hello all, > > Looking at the changes in this sundays rc, it seems the PCI patches of > Yinghai do not get picked up in RC2 and later. I did see some patches > from helgaas. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git > > Does someone know the plans with regard to PCIe support for big > systems with problematic bioses (aka high density GPU computing > clusters) in the linus tree. Or is it just too much of a risk to > migrate to new PCIe configuration code as most users do not need it? > > If the latter is the case, it is at least good to know now beforehand... I don't know specifically what problems you're seeing with "big systems with problematic BIOSes," but I will apply patches that improve Linux support for PCIe configuration, as long as they are clean, reviewable, and safe. There is no automatic "post patches on linux-pci and see them appear in the next RC" arrangement. Even if such patches fix a problem for some users, they have to be safe for all users and maintainable by people other than the author before I can merge them. I use https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-pci/list/ as the queue of patches to be reviewed and potentially applied. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git/ is the git tree of PCI-related changes heading for the mainline kernel. The "for-linus" branch contains things I plan to ask Linus to merge between the merge window and the final release, e.g., between v4.3-rc1 and v4.3. The "next" branch contains things intended for the next merge window, e.g., they would be merged between v4.3 and v4.4-rc1. Bjorn -- 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
