Re: [GIT PULL, resend] async_tx/dmaengine update for 2.6.29

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 12:45:29 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> net/core/dev.c | 149 +------
>> net/ipv4/tcp.c | 5 +-
>> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +-
>> net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +-
>> net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +-
>
> Wouldn't it be better for these changes to go through the net
> tree?
>

It was awkward to separate the reformatting of the core api from its
users. In this exceptional case these changes were limited to areas
inside #ifdef CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE/CONFIG_NET_DMA.

In general, Maciej and I send purely incremental patches through the
net tree [1].

Regards,
Dan

[1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=649274d993212e7c23c0cb734572c2311c200872
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