Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:32:55 +0900
To: joerg.roedel@amd.com
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
       bhavna.sarathy@amd.com, robert.richter@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add iommu_num_pages helper function
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:14:25 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote:

> > > If not, I suggest that we (you?) introduce one in a follow-on patch
> > > series and fix the iommu_num_pages function then.
> > 
> > That's fine by me. Or I could try to find a solution and submit new
> > patchset with your AMD and GART patches.
> 
> Thats also possible. But I prefer to fix that incrementally and merge
> this first step.
> 
> > BTW, I prefer to push this patchset via -mm rather than x86 since
> > after all we need to clean up all the IOMMUs.
> 
> Push it through -mm would make sense since it touches generic code in
> lib/. On the other side in x86 we would avoid merge conflicts with
> updates in AMD IOMMU and GART code.

Ok, I have no preference. It's not urgent and I can work on this later
on. I leave it to you and x86 maintainers.

Thanks,
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