From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:46:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/15] multi-cluster power management
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:03:06PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > What I suggest for the time being is to provide new inline function(s)
> > in arch/arm/include/cacheflush.h which are purposed for your application,
> > document them in that file, and call the implementation you're currently
> > using.  That means if we do have to change it in the future (for example,
> > we don't need to do anything in the dcache flushing stuff) we don't have
> > to hunt through all the code to find _your_ different use of that function
> > and fix it - we can just fix it in one place and we have the reference
> > there for what your code expects.
> 
> What about the patch below?  Once you tell me it is fine to you I'll 
> adapt the MCPM series to it.

Yes, that looks like a saner solution.  Thanks.