Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: + revert-gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources.patch added to -mm tree | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:09:42 -0600 |
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On Tuesday 01 April 2008 11:00:50 am Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:57:15 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote: > > > On Friday 28 March 2008 05:48:47 pm akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > > > > > The patch titled > > > revert gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources > > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > > revert-gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources.patch > > > > OK, I'm not sure where we are with this. Ben listed arches where > > the generic pci_enable_resources() should be safe: x86, alpha, and > > powerpc. I think we should also include ia64, since I work on that. > > > > If there's no objection to those arches, how should we move forward? > > Since Andrew put in "revert gregkh-pci" patches rather than just > > dropping things, I assume the original patches are in Greg KH's tree. > > > > Can we just drop the "revert gregkh" patches for x86, alpha, powerpc, > > and ia64? > > So powerpc is OK but ppc might not be?
I suppose Ben is the expert on that, and he did say he thought both powerpc and ppc would be OK. I think we just care less about ppc because powerpc is the new converged one.
Bjorn
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