Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] ntb_hw_switchtec: Added support of >=4G memory windows

From: Logan Gunthorpe
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 19:30:04 EST




On 2018-12-12 4:57 p.m., Jon Mason wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 6:42 PM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 2018-12-12 4:00 p.m., Jon Mason wrote:
>>> So, you based your patches on a series of patches not in the
>>> ntb/ntb-next branch? Please don't do this. I see nothing in these
>>> patches which requires that series, which makes this even more
>>> unnecessary. Since these are fairly trivial, I'm taking them and
>>> pushing to the ntb-next branch to give these more time to be tested
>>> (due to not being tested on the proper branch). I would really
>>> appreciate you testing the ntb-next branch as a sanity check.
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>> The NTB test tools don't work with switchtec hardware without that patch
>> set, so there's no way to test the changes without that branch.
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> Then let's get those patches in. IIRC, I asked you to split up the
> patch series to be bugfixes and features (or at least reorder the
> series so I can split it up that way in my branches). Also, I think
> Serge had some comments that may/may not need to be addressed. Could
> you please reorder and resend (and Serge can comment as needed on the
> resend)?

I resent a while back and responded to all the feedback. Every patch in
that series fixes a bug. None of them add features.

Logan