[LinuxBIOS] LNXI merge: lnxi-patch-00/16

[Jason Schildt]

All,

I've taken the ill-fated merge attempt from a few weeks ago and have
reworked it into 16 smaller, logical patches.  I've also made certain
that in the end, when all patches are applied all of the touched boards
will build.

Each patch I submit will consist of a brief description of what was
changed and why, as well as a diffstat and the patch itself.

I'll start submitting the diffs for review.

--jason--

Jason Schildt  writes:
> All,
>
> I've taken the ill-fated merge attempt from a few weeks ago and have
> reworked it into 16 smaller, logical patches.  I've also made certain
> that in the end, when all patches are applied all of the touched boards
> will build.
>
> Each patch I submit will consist of a brief description of what was
> changed and why, as well as a diffstat and the patch itself.

As a bit of constructive criticism, the why the change was missing on
quite a few of the diffs.  With the why missing it is hard for other
people to understand the problem and comment effectively.

Eric

Jason Schildt  writes:
> All,
>
> I've taken the ill-fated merge attempt from a few weeks ago and have
> reworked it into 16 smaller, logical patches.  I've also made certain
> that in the end, when all patches are applied all of the touched boards
> will build.
>
> Each patch I submit will consist of a brief description of what was
> changed and why, as well as a diffstat and the patch itself.
>
> I'll start submitting the diffs for review.

Next time please include in the subject a very brief summary of
what the patch is doing not just the patch count.

Something like:
[PATCH 4/16] Dual core and E0 changes.
[PATCH 13/16] auto.c  and failover.c changes.

Some kind of logical name for each patchset, so they can be thought
of and referred to more easily.

Eric