From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Bálint Czobor" <czoborbalint@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: misc: Add support for ANDROID_PMEM
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:43:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201307271643.38995.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130726145608.GA27289@kroah.com>
On Friday 26 July 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:53:21PM +0200, Bálint Czobor wrote:
> > Thank you for the info.
> > However some devices still use it, sorry, I haven't seen that commit.
>
> No modern Android devices should use pmem, only obsolete ones, right?
> That's why the code was removed.
>
> Do you have a device that requires this?
>
> You also mixed in a lot of device-specific changes, do you need those to
> be applied? If so, please make up a separate patch and submit it.
One particular problem is that it adds a dependency between the pmem driver
and the mach-msm directory for header files. This conflicts with the attempt
to remove all global header files from mach-msm, which is needed to support
multiplatform kernels.
Arnd
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-27 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-24 10:38 [PATCH 1/1] drivers: misc: Add support for ANDROID_PMEM Balint Czobor
2013-07-24 14:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <CAL6DFdeJFz2F5FP+0w44ygfATDkNQTBpV7ODkbBFwerq50H4Rw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-07-26 14:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-27 14:43 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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