Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757183AbbKSGPG (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:15:06 -0500 Received: from us01smtprelay-2.synopsys.com ([198.182.47.9]:54158 "EHLO smtprelay.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752698AbbKSGPC (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:15:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] include: asm-generic: page.h: Remove useless get_user_page and free_user_page To: Chen Gang , "dhowells@redhat.com" , "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "geert@linux-m68k.org" , "gerg@uclinux.org" , "jonas@southpole.se" , Arnd Bergmann , "abrodkin@synopsys.com" , "Andrew Morton" References: CC: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "kernel mailing list" , "linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org" , , "linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel.arc,gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.openrisc,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel From: Vineet Gupta Message-ID: <564D68CA.6010708@synopsys.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:44:34 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.12.197.182] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1347 Lines: 29 On Thursday 19 November 2015 01:10 AM, Chen Gang wrote: > From ba7c00c4cb976109b6a35812ce9649aaeda81e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Chen Gang > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:24:42 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] include: asm-generic: page.h: Remove useless get_user_page and free_user_page > > They are not symmetric with each other, neither are used in real world > (can not be found by grep command in source code root directory), so > remove them. > > Signed-off-by: Chen Gang > --- > arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 3 --- > arch/arm/include/asm/page-nommu.h | 3 --- > arch/frv/include/asm/page.h | 3 --- > arch/m68k/include/asm/page_mm.h | 3 --- > arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h | 3 --- > arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h | 3 --- > include/asm-generic/page.h | 3 --- > 7 files changed, 21 deletions(-) So this is one huge patch touching several arches with potential to cause conflicts when merged. Can u divy them up and then the maintainers can simply merge them individually given there is no common dependency ! -- 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/