Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:35:30 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
       tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make gart_alloc_coherent return zeroed memory
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:19:35AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:28:27 +0200
> Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote:
> 
> > The dma_alloc_coherent function should return memory set to zero. This patch
> > adds this to the GART implementation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> This should be foiled to the first patch in the patchset. No good
> reason to push a patch that might cause a problem.

The reason is, that in my experience, Ingo prefers update patches
instead replacements once he has merged something.

Joerg

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