On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:31:42PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:32:06PM -0500, Tony Camuso wrote: > > > Greg, > > > > > > Have you given Grant's suggestion any further consideration? > > > > > > I'd like to know how the MMCONFIG issues discussed in this thread are > > > going > > > to be handled upstream. I have a patch implemented in RHEL 5.2, but I > > > would > > > rather have the upstream patch implemented, whatever it is. > > > > Well, everyone still doesn't seem to agree on the proper way forward > > here, so for me to just "pick one" isn't very appropriate. > > > > So, can we try again? > > > > Can people submit, what they think the change should be? Right now I > > have Arjan's patch in my kernel tree, but will not send it to Linus for > > .25 for now, unless everyone thinks that is the best solution at the > > moment (which, for me, I'm leaning toward right now...) > > My opinion is that Ivan's patch followed by my patch is the best way > forward. I see Arjan's patch as a good prototype, but it introduces a lot > of unnecessary infrastructure (and a userspace interface that I dislike). > > I would like to see Ivan's patch merged ASAP as it does fix one of > my machines. akpm has the patch from me to disable io decoding, and > intends to send it to Linus during this merge window ... that patch > becomes unnecessary if we merge Ivan's patch. > > My patch is an incremental improvement that adds some of the features > of Arjan's patch without the extra infrastructure. I don't think it's > urgent, but it does make some of our internal interfaces cleaner.
Please send me patches, in a form that can be merged, along with a proper changelog entry, in the order in which you wish them to be applied, so I know exactly what changes you are referring to. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
