Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:44:20 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH-WIP] convert CPU sysdev class to a real subsytem (needed for CPU modaliases) |
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:11:34AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:21, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:50:57AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 23:34, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > >> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 04:25:21PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> >> Greg, would be nice, if you can take a quick look a the driver core (not > >> >> the sysdev) bits in core.c, bus.c, device.h, ... and its interaction, if > >> >> they look sane to you. I'll then split the driver core stuff out, so we > >> >> can merge that before we port the individual drivers over. > >> > > >> > Yes, it looks sane to me, thanks again for doing this work. > >> > >> Split-up patches are here: > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/patches.git;a=tree > >> > >> That's the size of it: > >> 60 files changed, 1170 insertions(+), 1421 deletions(-) > > > > Very nice. > > > >> The current state and the list of the remaining non-x86 files is here: > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/patches.git;a=blob;f=README;hb=HEAD > >> > >> We need a plan now. :) > > > > If I take those patches, none of those other ones will break their > > build, right? > > The first patch should not break anything, the non-core things > shouldn't too.
Nice, I've applied the first patch to my tree and pushed it out and I'll read over the rest now.
> > Or will the cpu ones? > > The cpu patch as it is will break power, s390, sh and tile. > $ git grep -w -l cpu_sysdev_class > arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c > arch/s390/kernel/smp.c > arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/sq.c > arch/tile/kernel/sysfs.c > > If all should be bisectable, we would need to merge these changes into > the cpu patch.
Yeah, we need to do that, I'll look at it.
> The other two core patches, node and memory, could need arch fixes > too, but a quick grep did not reveal anything.
Ok, we might be safe there, I'll look at them.
thanks,
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