Re: [PATCH] add iommu_num_pages helper function

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 07:27:59 EST



* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:41:56 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ok, i'll apply the 3 patches to tip/x86/iommu. As usual, feel free to
> > send IOMMU cleanups/generalizations/fixes against tip/master:
> >
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
>
> So, I assume a patch created on July 25 is not destined for 2.6.27,
> right? Especially since it breaks another architecture build and has
> only made it to linux-next on July 29 ... and needs more work given
> the comments already on this patch.

Correct, they were not intended for immediate upstream merging, they
werent even in auto-x86-next so there was no meaningful linux-next
exposure.

I was surprised they went upstream via the PCI tree yesterday, just
hours after i sent them over to Jesse and about an hour before -rc1 was
released. [ Nor did intend the core/generic-dma-coherent bits to go
upstream right before -rc1 - although those seem to be problem-free so
far. ]

I stopped sending non-urgent patches to Linus days ago, to let things
calm down for a smooth -rc1 release.

Ingo
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