Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] [SCSI] ufs: Adds glue drivers to ufshcd | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:22:23 +0000 |
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On Monday 16 July 2012, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 15:45 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Friday 13 July 2012, Vinayak Holikatti wrote: > > > This patch set adds following features > > > - Seprates PCI specific code from ufshcd.c to make it as core > > > - Adds PCI glue driver ufshcd-pci.c > > > - Adds Platform glue driver ufshcd-pltfrm.c > > > - Update correct transfer size in Command UPIU > > > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > I need a maintainer ack for this to go upstream. > > Also, looking at this, I think this patch series isn't bisectable: > Patch 1 removes PCI support and patch 2 adds it back in a different > form. However, any PCI based UFS system would stop working if the > bisect landed at patch 1. I think you can fix this just by combining > patches 1 and 2.
I suggested to split the patch in two in a private review that we did on the linaro mailing list. I gave my Ack because the split was done, but I failed to notice that it was done differently from what I suggested in
On Monday 02 July 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I would recommend that you split this patch into two separate > changesets, where you do all the changes to existing code in the > first patch, and only move but don't change code in the second one > that creates the new file.
I agree that breaking bisectibility by ripping out the PCI code first is not good. The version 2 is not actually easier to review at all than the first version, it just splits the changes by file, which is pointless.
Arnd
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