[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:57:26 +0200
Jörn Engel <joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:

> Don't expect much cheer and rejoicing over this.  I suspect that akpm
> or Linus will either want the 17 patches merged into one or have a
> patchset where every single patch leaves the kernel in a working
> state, including working eHCA driver.

It doesn't matter in this case.  The "don't break the build at any stage of
a series" preference exists because it's extremely irritating to hit a
won't-build in the middle of a git-bisect operation.

But anybody who is bisection searching for a bug won't want to enable a
brand-new driver in their config, so no problems.