Re: [PATCH -tip v2 0/5] add common functions for struct dma_map_ops

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> Thanks for picking up the patchset,
> 
> On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:20:20 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:55:00 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > > We unified x86 and IA64's handling of multiple dma mapping operations
> > > (struct dma_map_ops in linux/dma-mapping.h) so we can remove
> > > duplication in their arch/include/asm/dma-mapping.h.
> > > 
> > > This patchset adds include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h that
> > > provides some generic dma mapping function definitions for the users
> > > of struct dma_map_ops. This enables us to remove about 100 lines. This
> > > also enables us to easily add CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG support, which only
> > > x86 supports for now. The 4th patch adds CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG support
> > > to IA64 by adding only 8 lines.
> > > 
> > > This is against tip/master since tip has some changes to
> > > arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h.
> > > 
> > > The changes since the first version are
> > > 
> > > - fixed a bug that dma_attrs is not passed properly (thanks to Arnd
> > > Bergmann).
> > > 
> > > - used a new name, dma-mapping-common.h, instead of dma-mapping.h
> > > (suggested by Arnd Bergmann).
> > > 
> > > - added Joerg's Acked-by
> > > 
> > > =
> > >  arch/ia64/Kconfig                        |    1 +
> > >  arch/ia64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h      |  110 ++----------------
> > >  arch/x86/Kconfig                         |    1 +
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h       |  174 +---------------------------
> > >  include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h |  190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  lib/dma-debug.c                          |   82 ++++++++------
> > >  6 files changed, 252 insertions(+), 306 deletions(-)
> > 
> > I'm hoping that a suitable merge scheme here would be for me to merge
> > 1/5 into mainline then to send 2/5 to Ingo and 3/5, 4/5 and 5/5 to Tony
> > for merging.  Will that all compile and work?
> 
> Yes, it works. The X86 patch (2/5) and the IA64 patches (3/5, 4/5, and
> 5/5) can be merged independently. Both depends on the first patch (1/5).
> 
> 
> > Alternatively I can merge the lot, with suitable acking.
> 
> It would be easier, I think.

Yeah, that's certainly fine with me. No sense pulling these apart.

	Ingo