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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:43:49 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make swiotlb prototypes generic
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* Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> > this small series of patches introduce a generic header file for the software
> > IO/TLB implementation in lib/swiotlb.c. Currently each architecture using this
> > code defines the prototypes itself. The prototypes are moved to
> > include/linux/swiotlb.h and this file is included in architecture specific code
> > for X86 and IA64. The changes are compile tested for both architectures.
> 
> Boot tested on ia64 (using generic_defconfig, tiger_defconfig and 
> zx1_defconfig).

given that this touches both x86 and ia64, i suspect queueing it in -mm 
(as it is already) and merging it upstream from there would be the best 
approach?

	Ingo