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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Jian Peng <jipeng@broadcom.com>
Cc: "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: patch to support topdown mmap allocation in MIPS
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:58:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDD432D.4020200@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18F441196CA634DB8E1F1C56A50A874572CCBB6B5@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>

On 05/25/2011 10:47 AM, Jian Peng wrote:
> Hi, Ralf/David,
>
> What else should I do to get this patch merged?
>

Be patient.  And tell how it was tested.


Also ....

[...]
> +
> +unsigned long arch_get_unmapped_area_foo(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr0,
> +               unsigned long len, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags,
> +               enum mmap_allocation_direction dir)

I know I suggested the name *_foo, but really I expected you to choose a 
better name, as the 'foo' is just the default name for examples.

I think it needs a better name than that.

I will try to test it on my Octeon system sometime.

David Daney

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-16 21:09 patch to support topdown mmap allocation in MIPS Jian Peng
2011-05-16 23:37 ` Jian Peng
2011-05-17  0:12 ` David Daney
2011-05-17  1:06   ` Jian Peng
2011-05-17 16:49     ` David Daney
2011-05-17 19:37       ` Jian Peng
2011-05-25 17:47         ` Jian Peng
2011-05-25 17:58           ` David Daney [this message]
2011-05-25 18:06             ` Jian Peng
2011-06-13 23:43               ` Jian Peng
2011-06-14  0:21                 ` Jian Peng
2011-11-09 17:45           ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-17  1:27   ` Kevin Cernekee
2011-05-17  4:04     ` Jian Peng
2011-05-17 15:18     ` [PATCH] MIPS: Cleanup arch_get_unmapped_area Ralf Baechle
2011-05-17 16:52     ` patch to support topdown mmap allocation in MIPS Ralf Baechle

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