Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:50:27 +0200
"Peter Oruba" <[email protected]> wrote:
This patch set introduces a PCI-X / PCI-Express read byte count control
interface. Instead of letting every driver to directly read/write to PCI
config space for that, an interface is provided. The interface functions then
can be used for quirks since some PCI bridges require that read byte count
values are set by the BIOS and left unchanged by device drivers.
Some of the patches were wordwrapped, which I fixed.
The way we would merge a feature like this is
- get maintainers to review-and-ack the change
- merge the core patch into Greg's PCI tree and later into
mainline.
- Once the base infrastructure is in mainline, feed the per-driver
changes into the tree via the appropriate maintainers.
This takes, umm, months and consumes quite a bit of my time. I'm becoming
inclined just to slam stuff like this straight in as you've proposed, but
for now, let's play the game - I split the patches up appropriately. I
don't think there's any particular urgency behind this, is there?
While Jeff just Acked the changes to e1000-specific for me, I think this is a
good approach and would appreciate it. I'll be happy to pull the change and push
it through in due time.
Auke
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