Re: [PATCH] Updating our sn code in 2.6

[Pat Gefre]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

+ On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:05:05PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
+ > Andrew, I'm ok with these patches (and it looks like Christoph doesn't
+ > find them too repulsive either) and David said he'd rather have you take
+ > them directly if they look ok.  Will you merge them into your tree
+ > please?  Like I said, this gets the tree into a very good state for
+ > people using Altix machines, and contains a number of important bug
+ > fixes.
+ 
+ Well, the pci-reorg patch is just wrong with tht remaining stuff
+ and breaks the portable I/O code for IP27 and SN2 I'm working on.

I have not heard any compelling reasons for keeping non-ia64, non-Altix
code in the ia64, Altix code base. The code re-org is aimed towards a
new ASIC we are working on - we feel it is needed.


+ Just kill that pointless renaming and it's okay - the functional
+ changes are fine anyway.  Also please let Pat fix the bunch of other

One can always argue that renaming is pointless - since it doesn't
change the logic - but we'd like to keep the new names.


+ issues before merging, it's not that much anyway..

I think I did. I sent another email with the changes I made for the
issues you raised - and updated the patches. If I missed any, please
let me know.

David or Andrew can you take these patches ?

Thanks,
-- Pat

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