From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nico@fluxnic.net (Nicolas Pitre) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:12:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: Git pull request: shmobile fix for the vmalloc series In-Reply-To: <20120103095958.GJ2914@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20120103095958.GJ2914@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:34:21PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Russell, please pull the following into your devel-stable branch: > > > > git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux vmalloc > > > > This contains a patch from Magnus Damm fixing the oversized DMA area > > issue on shmobile, and a revert of the temporary and noisy workaround > > (which is already in your devel-stable branch) that was needed because > > of that issue. > > Is there much point? shmobile shows no sign of fixing their #error for > the restart changes (and haven't responded to any of my emails) Well, it took them 3 months before they responded to mine with a patch. So it would be fair to merge the fix for this one issue, even if it is only to remove the ugly VMALLOC_END hack from pgtable.h. > I think we should be thinking about removing this -clearly- > unmaintained set of platforms. > > So, it currently looks like I'm going to be pushing a #error for them > in during the next merge window. I'd much rather just delete the > unmaintained code to avoid adding those evil things. I'd vote for the #error. My noisy #warning is possibly what created some motion here. Nicolas