From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:58092 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752169AbYBTW4f (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:56:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:55:27 +0000 From: Russell King Subject: Re: DMA API Re: Remove dma_coherent_mem interface Message-ID: <20080220225527.GA26887@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1193864605.25899.253.camel@wirenth> <20080220171409.GB27736@parisc-linux.org> <200802201849.48312.ak@suse.de> <1203533015.3181.2.camel@wirenth> <47BC7B34.7020308@suse.de> <1203542815.3181.6.camel@wirenth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1203542815.3181.6.camel@wirenth> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: ian Cc: Andi Kleen , Matthew Wilcox , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jejb@steeleye.com, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org, Dmitry On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:26:55PM +0000, ian wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 20:10 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Is there a time frame on when will this happen? Will you be ready > > for the .26 merge window? > > I think the big sticking point now is getting the generic clock > interface merged - Dmitry is working hard on that. And that requires a review from my side, which I've not been able to do yet... It seems there's a number of dependencies that the code depends on, and trying to push to remove an interface which is used on to-be-merged code which is being _actively_ worked on to bring it to merge standard is just stupid - that's a recipe for forcing folk into a corner where they'll never have everything merged that they need for their particular set of code. The alternative is that the code which uses it could be merged as is, albiet without the dependents, so effectively it couldn't be built. But then it'll satisfy Andi's grep that there are users in the tree. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: