Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754022AbbFCXC6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2015 19:02:58 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com ([209.85.223.170]:36831 "EHLO mail-ie0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752452AbbFCXCt (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2015 19:02:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1429649166-18294-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 16:02:28 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qPF-LbziT-iR0IFh13V8GPGG8P0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fusion: remove dead MTRR code To: Sreekanth Reddy , "mpt-fusionlinux.pdl" , Linux SCSI List , Andrew Morton , Sumit.Saxena@avagotech.com, kashyap.desai@avagotech.com, JBottomley@odin.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Toshi Kani , Christoph Hellwig , Suresh Siddha , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Juergen Gross , Daniel Vetter , Dave Airlie , Antonino Daplas , Tomi Valkeinen , =?UTF-8?B?VmlsbGUgU3lyasOkbMOk?= , Mel Gorman , Vlastimil Babka , Borislav Petkov , Davidlohr Bueso , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2577 Lines: 65 On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez >> wrote: >>> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" >>> >>> If and when this gets enabled the driver could should split >>> up IO memory space properly and that is quite a bit of work. >>> Just remove the uncommented dead MTRR code then. >>> >>> There are a few motivations for this: >>> >>> a) Take advantage of PAT when available >>> >>> b) Help bury MTRR code away, MTRR is architecture specific and on >>> x86 its replaced by PAT >>> >>> c) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over >>> _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit >>> de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx, >>> use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and >>> pci_mmap_page_range()") >> >> Hey folks, who's tree should this go through if agreeable? > > OK its been over 1 month without any replies on this patch which just > removes commented out code. > > All the maintainers below bounce and the only e-mail not bouncing is > for Sreekanth Reddy , he hasn't been > seen active on linux-next since Jan 12 2015 when he did a driver bump > for mpt2sas to 20.100.00.00. > > What's going on folks? And can this patch go in? > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index aca2886..73dbc02 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -6205,10 +6205,7 @@ S: Maintained > F: arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/ > > LSILOGIC MPT FUSION DRIVERS (FC/SAS/SPI) > -M: Nagalakshmi Nandigama > -M: Praveen Krishnamoorthy > M: Sreekanth Reddy > -M: Abhijit Mahajan > L: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@avagotech.com > L: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > W: http://www.lsilogic.com/support OK so Avago bought Broadcom. Does that impact how Avago will contribute to the Linux kernel? It has been well over 1 month and I haven't seen any reply from Avago folks. Andrew, is the silence sufficient enough reason for this patch to go instead through your tree? Luis -- 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/