Re: [PATCH] x86: make gart_alloc_coherent return zeroed memory

[Joerg Roedel]

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@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  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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