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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem missing cache flush
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> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
>    Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:57:30 +0100 (BST)
>    
>    I would be much happier about adding it, if you could tell me that
>    I can then remove the flush_page_to_ram(page) from shmem_nopage?
>    
> No we still have to support platforms using flush_page_to_ram()
> 
> I didn't get a chance to deprecate this in 2.5.x, I wish I had.

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>    Date: 21 Oct 2002 17:12:22 +0100
>    
>    Send me the diffs Im happy to give them a spin.
> 
> Here goes.  I contacted Anton and Paulus about flush_icache_page as
> that is on the hitlist next and ppc/ppc64 is the only well maintained
> port using that.

I like your patch, but what has changed?  Are those platforms which
were using flush_page_to_ram() now committed to its elimination?
Or have they already replaced it (not seen in your patch)?

Hugh

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