From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752471AbbIRR1i (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:27:38 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:55075 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbbIRR1h (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:27:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu-common: only compile lib/iommu_common.c for Sparc64 To: David Miller References: <1442479227-18320-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> <20150917.113806.1491126940106627619.davem@davemloft.net> <55FBD36C.5070301@arm.com> <20150918.100952.975850165461332930.davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "joro@8bytes.org" , "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" From: Andre Przywara Organization: ARM Ltd. Message-ID: <55FC49B8.3020100@arm.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:28:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150918.100952.975850165461332930.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi David, On 18/09/15 18:09, David Miller wrote: > From: Andre Przywara > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:03:40 +0100 > >> Or do you know of a simpler way to fixing it properly which could make >> it still into 4.3? > > All I worry about is that if you take it out of the build, doing > the proper fix will suddenly become very low priority and be > forgotten about completely. > > Whereas if it actually blocks the build for someone, it's a high > priority issue to address. I see. What about if I provide the two patches at the same time? An easy fix for 4.3 and the proper fix for 4.4? You can then even choose to take the proper fix for 4.3 if it's reasonably low risk. I will try sending something on Monday. Cheers, Andre.