From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964784AbXBLI5p (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:57:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964789AbXBLI5p (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:57:45 -0500 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:25606 "EHLO public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964784AbXBLI5o (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:57:44 -0500 Message-Id: <45D03A3F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.1 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:58:23 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Cc: , "Christoph Hellwig" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen) References: <200702070759.l177xIti030295@hera.kernel.org> <20070207083254.GA24561@lst.de> <20070211072555.GA22831@lst.de> <45D025BF.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <1171268065.6308.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1171268065.6308.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > If Jan actually had a goal with that except making the code utterly >> > unreadable he should try again with small patches that are well >> > explained and do one thing at a at time. (And cane be reviewed an >> > improved on if needed. >> >> As the topic says - the goal is to support Xen. > >Xen the linux guest >or >Xen the hypervisor? > >if it's the later, why on earth would we want to uglyfy linux for it? >(arguably it holds in the former case as well) The former. Jan