Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:48:18 +0200
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
       Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@tiscali.co.uk>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm: Pass virtual address to
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:11:13 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > I would like to merge the new support that depends on this in 2.6.32,
> > > so unless there's major objections, I'd like this to go in early during
> > > the merge window. We can sort out separately how to carry the patch
> > > around in -next until then since the powerpc tree will have a dependency
> > > on it.
> > 
> > Can't see any problem with that.
> 
> CC'ing Linus here. How do you want to proceed with that merge ? (IE. so
> far nobody objected to the patch itself)
> 
> IE. The patch affects all archs, though it's a trivial change every
> time, but I'll have stuff in powerpc-next that depends on it, and so I'm
> not sure what the right approach is here. Should I put it in the powerpc
> tree ?
> 
> I also didn't have any formal Ack from anybody, neither mm folks nor
> arch maintainers :-)

Well the change is trivial, it just adds another unused argument to the
macros. For the records: it still compiles on s390.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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