Re: [PATCH V2] genalloc: add support to specify the physicaladdress

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu May 12 2011 - 15:07:38 EST


On Thu, 12 May 2011 18:38:32 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:15:35AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:54:15AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > so we specify the virtual address as base of the pool chunk and then
> > > get the physical address for hardware IP
> > >
> > > as example on at91 we will use on spi, uart or macb
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Patrice VILCHEZ <patrice.vilchez@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > I integrate the documentation fix
> > > could replace the previous one with this one
> > >
> > > V2:
> > > update documentation
> > > use phys_addr_t for physical addr
> > > Best Regards,
> >
> > I notice no comments on this - maybe it needs to be Cc'd to linux-mm too?
> >
> > Andrew - do you have any views on this?
>
> Still haven't heard anything. What's the status?

Sorry, I missed the earlier email. I've had v2 queued for 2.6.39 for a
month. If someone merges it into some other tree then that's OK by me
- I'll just drop my copy when it turns up in -next.

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