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Date:   Sun, 30 Aug 2020 12:56:48 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] memblock: fix min_low_pfn/max_low_pfn build
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Hi Randy,

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 08:40:51AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 8/29/20 6:04 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 05:01:39PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> Export min_low_pfn & max_low_pfn in mm/memblock.c to fix build errors
> >> on arch/microblaze/ and arch/ia64/: (e.g.)
> > 
> > Please don't. This would give driver developers a wrong impression that
> > these variables can be used to query memory boundaries, but this is not
> > the case, at least not on all architectures.
> > 
> > I would prefer fixing it up locally for microblaze and ia64.
> 
> I did that.
> and that's why this is labeled as an ALTERNATE PATCH.

I've seen that, I just wanted to make sure that Andrew wouldn't pick
this one :)

I can help with taking microblaze and ia64 patches via memblock tree
once we have Acks from the arch maintainers.
 
> thanks.
> -- 
> ~Randy
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.