Re: [PATCH/RESEND] pci: dynids.use_driver_data considered harmful

From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RESEND] pci: dynids.use_driver_data considered harmful
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:58:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080712225853.15b13c86@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080712201703.GA12900@suse.de>

Hi Greg, Milton,

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:17:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:02:22PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> > I typo'd on the cc to linux-kernel the first time, and wanted to take make a
> > second pass at the long narritive of my debug session promoting this patch.
> > I think I got the new linux-pci list, but google doesn't seem to find any
> > archives of the new list or this patch.
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 	Thanks for picking this up and the expanded cc list.  I took the
> > patch from mmotm and only changed the changlog.  Please update your copy.
> 
> Andrew, please drop this patch, it is not correct, the code should stay
> as-is.  See my previous reply for why this is so.

Care to copy it here? Apparently it all happened in a private
discussion.

> > Jesse,
> > 	I don't care if you commit this version with the full narritive
> > or just the part through the footnote.
> 
> Jesse, please don't commit this either.
> 
> Milton, if you wish to ignore my response, well, that's up to you :(

-- 
Jean Delvare