On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:58:39PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 05:00:28PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I oppose this. I will be working with the author to make it > > upstream-worthy, but please give me one serious reason why it should be > > kicked out of the powerpc patch set right now ? It may be of lesser > > quality than it should, but it offers a service to some users that is > > not possible right now, and also, removing this patch from the powerpc > > debian kernel would definitively make all the pegasos userbase stop > > using the debian kernel in facor of a selfbuilt one (or i will probably > > be building non-debian kernel or something such). > > Simply removing exisiting features from the codebase is indeed not a > good idea because users start to use it and depend on it. That's why > I'm so opposed to adding new non-mainline features.
Well, this is a filesystem driver, which is probably never used outside of the pegasos community, it is built modular, so it should have zero impact on non pegasos powerpc users. > > > pegasos.diff > > > > > > Arch/ppc part should go upstream, although upstream told me on irc they > > > remember they weren't happy with the last version they got, so it might > > > > Upstream being benh, right ? > > That happened on irc. IIRC I got feedback from Ben and Paul. If it is ok with you, i will be working with the linuxppc guys to get this upto their norm, and in the mainstream kernels, probably during the month of June, i hope. That said, it will probably not go in before 2.6.7 is out, and probably not even then, so it should stay in the powerpc kernel patch for now. > > I would like help on the via82cxxx driver issue though, on where exactly > > i can set the irq. The mention of doing this in arch specific code is a > > bit obscure to me. > > This whole thing is rather obscure and my earlier idea of the irq > assigment in pci code probably won't work because the IDE code doesn't > like per-channel irqs. Maybe post the issue to [email protected] > and ask for comments? Ok, i will do this. I mailed the listed author/maintainer of the via82cxxx driver, but never got an answer. Friendly, Sven Luther >
