Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753940AbaBYSqc (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:46:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52593 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752534AbaBYSqb (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:46:31 -0500 Message-ID: <1393353942.26583.10.camel@deneb.redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] generic early_ioremap support From: Mark Salter To: Will Deacon Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Dave Young , Rob Herring , Leif Lindholm , "patches@linaro.org" Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:45:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20140225183012.GA27164@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1392238575-10000-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com> <1393337404.7307.51.camel@deneb.redhat.com> <20140225183012.GA27164@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 18:30 +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > I'd suggest spitting the core part out from the arch-specific parts. That > way, the core part can merged independently and architectures can move over > as they see fit. It also signals (at least to me) that, "hey, I should > probably review this" whilst my current stance is "there's a whole load of > stuff under mm/ that needs to be acked first". > > If you put the whole thing into next, you just run the risk of conflicts > with all the arch trees. I've been thinking of breaking out the common bits and x86 bits and just going with that for now. There's no point in just doing the common bits because it won't get tested without at least one architecture using it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/