Re: [PATCH] remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU genericoption

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:34:14 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:51:05AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > The patch that I sent doesn't make any changes for you. GART works as
> > before and AMD IOMMU takes a new parameter, fullflush, as you want. It
> > does the exact same thing that the first version of your patchset for
> > 2.6.28.
> > 
> > So please let me apply it then we can stop this discussion.
> 
> Ok, so it was not nice from me to let Ingo pull this patch without your
> ack, I already admitted.

I didn't ask you to try to get my ACK before pushing the patches that
affect all the IOMMUs. I'll never ask for such.

I asked you to get the ACKs from the IOMMUs maintainers that your
patches affect.

If the IOMMUs maintainers who your patch affects agree on your patch,
I will not be against it even if I don't like it.

This time, you tried to add a generic parameter that would be useful
for VT-d, but seems that the VT-d maintainer is not ready for such
decision. Thus, I think that postponing adding the parameter was a
reasonable decision for everyone.

I also insisted that we need serious consideration about how all the
generic parameters interact with each other before changing them, but
again, if all the IOMMUs maintainers agree on a different plan, it's
fine by me.


> To end this discussion and get to productive
> discussions, Ingo, please apply this patch. I hope we will work together
> on a final solution for the problem.

Thanks very much.
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