Re: [PATCH 11/12]Remove defines of DMA_XXBIT_MASK micro

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From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 1:14 am

* Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:


Looks good beyond the s/micro/macro typo fix, but i'd suggest to 
keep these old defines for one more kernel cycle, then do a 
final removal of all remaining uses, in a single patch.

That way we'll save ourselves from quite a bit of unnecessary 
build breakages (as your patchset shows there's still a lot of 
users of the old macros), as these definitions get moved around, 
reintroduced, etc.

Conflict resolution becomes easier as well - if such a patch 
conflicts with some ongoing work then we can by avoid the 
conflict by just dropping that hunk and delaying that particular 
conversion to the 'final' stage.

	Ingo
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[PATCH 11/12]Remove defines of DMA_XXBIT_MASK micro, Yang Hongyang, (Wed Feb 18, 11:54 pm)
[PATCH 12/12]Update related documentations, Yang Hongyang, (Wed Feb 18, 11:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 11/12]Remove defines of DMA_XXBIT_MASK micro, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 19, 1:14 am)
Re: [PATCH 11/12]Remove defines of DMA_XXBIT_MASK micro, Yang Hongyang, (Thu Feb 19, 1:56 am)