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Date:   Thu, 9 Aug 2018 15:34:42 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: switch to NO_BOOTMEM
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 02:42:15PM -0700, Paul Burton wrote:
> Hi Sergey & Mike,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:30:03AM +0300, Fancer's opinion wrote:
> > Hello Mike,
> > I haven't read your patch text yet. I am waiting for the subsystem
> > maintainers response at least
> > about the necessity to have this type of changes being merged into the
> > sources (I mean
> > memblock/no-bootmem alteration). If they find it pointless (although I
> > would strongly disagree), then
> > nothing to discuss. Otherwise we can come up with a solution.
> > 
> > -Sergey
> 
> I'm all for dropping bootmem.
> 
> It's too late for something this invasive in 4.19, but I'd love to get
> it into 4.20.

I can resend my patch once merge window is closed. We can then apply
additional changes Sergey has done in his set on top.

> Thanks,
>     Paul
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.