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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco•com>
To: Heiko Joerg Schick <info@schihei•de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	openib-general@openib•org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:03:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada8xply8wz.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2r7a0$fo2$1@sea.gmane.org> (Heiko Joerg Schick's message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:50:28 +0200")

    Heiko> I don't like the idea to put the whole driver in one patch
    Heiko> file. I would propose to put the patch "ehca: integration
    Heiko> in Linux kernel" last instead of first, as Arnd
    Heiko> mentioned. With that change we leave the kernel in a
    Heiko> working state when applying the patches.

Yes, that makes sense.

And I can fold the patches into a single git changeset when we finally
merge it, since I don't see any advantage to having the driver split
into pieces.  (No one is going to git biset a half-applied driver or
anything like that)

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-01 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27 12:05 [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver Heiko J Schick
2006-04-27 12:57 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-27 19:50   ` Heiko Joerg Schick
2006-05-01 17:03     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-05-03 12:43   ` Andrew Morton

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