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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:49:40 +0100
From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
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Il 14/12/2010 18:00, Tony Luck ha scritto:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Marco Stornelli
> <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw (very quickly) in drivers/staging/dream/pmem.c
> 
> Most recent commit for that says:
> 
>     Staging: dream: remove dream driver and arch from tree
> 
>     This code is stalled, with no one working on it anymore, and the main
>     msm code is now going through the proper channels to get merged
>     correctly.
> 
>     So remove it as it contains a number of kernel information leaks and it
>     is doubtful if it even still builds anymore.
> 
> :-(
> 
> -Tony
> 

Yeah, maybe it wasn't really ready for mainline :) However the idea
behind it, it was the same more or less, to have a piece of memory to
write some persistent information.

Marco