Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH 1/2] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Apr 06 2015 - 03:28:05 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 10:12 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 09:12 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> >
> >> > should revert those end_of_ram change as attached.
> >>
> >> I confirmed that the pmem driver works with the change, and last_pfn is
> >> updated as expected.
> >
> > Could someone please send the fix with a changelog, etc?
> >
>
> Why just fold those change into that commit.

Because we try to avoid doing rebases of otherwise tested trees, and
because fixes will outline the thinking behind the code as well.

Thanks,

Ingo
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