Re: [PATCH 1/5] Intel MIC Host Driver for X100 family.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 01 2013 - 03:32:23 EST


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:31:32PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> This patch enables the following:
> a) Initializes the Intel MIC X100 PCIe devices.
> b) Boots and shuts down the card via sysfs entries.
> c) Allocates and maps a device page for communication with the
> card driver and updates the device page address via scratchpad
> registers.
> d) Provides sysfs entries for family, stepping, state, shutdown
> status, kernel command line, IP address, ramdisk and log buffer
> information.

That's a lot to do in one patch, almost 4 thousand lines. Can't you
break this up into some more smaller, logical, and reviewable, pieces?

For example, I have no idea what b) is, and how to separate it from the
things you do for a) and c).

thanks,

greg k-h
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