Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/19] xen/arm: Add ITS support

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 09:32 +0530, Vijay Kilari wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Forgot one series (albeit of a single patch):
> >
> > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 14:53 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> There's quite a few series out there right now from you guys, with quite
> >> a number of patches in each, so I think we need to prioritise the order
> >> we deal with them.
> >>
> >> I am intending to go through them in the following order:
> >>       * Basic platform support code
> >
> >         * VMAP PTE present fix
> >
> >>       * PCI support
> >>       * ITS support
> >>       * Other new work (e.g. NUMA)
> >>
> >> Does that ordering suit your plans?
> >>
> >> I think we don't want to build up too much of a backlog so it would be
> >> good to put an emphasis on addressing comments & resending stuff nearer
> >> the top of the list first.
> >>
> >> (With that in mind I think the basic platform device was almost there
> >> but needed a couple of minor things addressing in one patch).
> 
> Agreed, But the patch series sent are completely independent.

True, but maintainer bandwidth for review is not (nor is it infinite).

So I just wanted to set your expectations wrt what order I would be
dealing with things in (along with all the other stuff I have to
review).

> Holding back patches will delay things. I have sent ITS patch series to
> get first feedback. Meanwhile, I will work on platform & VMAP patches
> 
> As Manish is working on PCI, Any changes to ITS driver for
> PCI stuff will be managed separately.
> 
> Regards
> Vijay



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