Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] bitmap: get rid of bitmap_remap() and bitmap_biremap() uses

Linus Walleij
2023-09-26T08:52:24Z

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 7:20 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> As Rasmus suggested [1], the bit remapping APIs should be local to NUMA.
> However, they are being in use outside of that for a while. To make
> above happen, introduces simplified APIs that can be used otherwise.
>
> It seems we might have yet another user of the above mentioned APIs.
>
> The last patch has not been tested anyhow (except compilation, so
> all testing and comments are welcome).
>
> The idea is to get an immutable tag (via my tree) that can be pulled
> by bitmap and GPIO trees on the need (while usually I send PR to
> the GPIO subsystem).
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230815235934.47782-1-yury.norov@gmail.com/ [1]

I don't understand the bitmap changes very well, but the resulting
changes to cdev look very nice clearly making that code more readable
and maintainable, so FWIW:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij