Re: [PATCH V9 1/4] dma-mapping: Rework dma_get_cache_alignment()

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Only patch 4 can be merged to stable, please ignore cc-stable in the rest.
 
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From:  "Christoph Hellwig"<hch@xxxxxx>;
Date:  Fri, Nov 3, 2017 01:14 PM
To:  "éåæ"<chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>; 
Cc:  "Marek Szyprowski"<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Christoph Hellwig"<hch@xxxxxx>; "Robin Murphy"<robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>; "Andrew Morton"<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Fuxin Zhang"<zhangfx@xxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-kernel"<linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ralf Baechle"<ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "JamesHogan"<james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-mips"<linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "James E . J .Bottomley"<jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Martin K . Petersen"<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-scsi"<linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "stable"<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Michael S . Tsirkin"<mst@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Pawel Osciak"<pawel@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Kyungmin Park"<kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Michael Chan"<michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Benjamin Herrenschmidt"<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ivan Mikhaylov"<ivan@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Tariq Toukan"<tariqt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Andy Gross"<agross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mark A . Greer"<mgreer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "RobertBaldyga"<r.baldyga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
Subject:  Re: [PATCH V9 1/4] dma-mapping: Rework dma_get_cache_alignment()

 
I can queue 1 up in the dma-mapping tree, and if I get reviews for
the mips and scsi bits I'd be happy to queue those up as well.

But I think you'd be better off moving patches 3 and 4 to the front
without the dma_get_cache_alignment prototype change so that they can be
merged to stable.