From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753956Ab3EVAvY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 20:51:24 -0400 Received: from intranet.asianux.com ([58.214.24.6]:46804 "EHLO intranet.asianux.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753328Ab3EVAvX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 20:51:23 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -100.8 Message-ID: <519C1658.3040209@asianux.com> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:50:32 +0800 From: Chen Gang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Catalin Marinas CC: Will Deacon , Geert Uytterhoeven , Arnd Bergmann , Tony Lindgren , Santosh Shilimkar , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: need extern variable 'screen_info' for related driver using. References: <5199B7D6.40907@asianux.com> <20130520091008.GB31359@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <519AE6D7.1090401@asianux.com> <519B278B.6030708@asianux.com> <20130521090336.GC10453@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <519B48B4.6050607@asianux.com> <20130521131539.GC27002@arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130521131539.GC27002@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/21/2013 09:15 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:13:08AM +0100, Chen Gang wrote: >> > On 05/21/2013 05:03 PM, Will Deacon wrote: >>> > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 08:51:39AM +0100, Chen Gang wrote: >>>> > >> For me, I still recommend add 'ARM64' in the long list of architectures >>>> > >> for 'VGA_CONSOLE', I have 3 reasons, please check: >>>> > >> >>>> > >> a. current implementation only changes one area which only related with >>>> > >> arm64 and 'VGA_CONSOLE', but if use 'CONFIG_HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE', that will >>>> > >> touch many multiple platforms dependency, at least we need discuss about >>>> > >> it with multiple platforms guys for it, firstly. >>> > > >>> > > That's a weak argument. You might as well propose the cleanup and see what >>> > > people say. >> > >> > Hmm.. I think at least, we need discuss it with the 'final applier' >> > firstly (and now, I even do not know who is the 'final applier'). > Well, you can post the patch to linux-arch, cc'ing the arch maintainers > whose Kconfig files you touch. If there are no comments, it will most > likely be picked by Andrew Morton and sent to Linus (make sure you cc > Andrew as well). OK, thanks. I will do with PARPORT_PC firstly, I think, it is a better candidate than VGA_CONSOLE. And excuse me, I have to do another things now, and I think I should finish the PARPORT_PC within this week. Thanks. -- Chen Gang Asianux Corporation