Re: [GIT PULL] dma-mapping updates for 5.4

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Sep 19 2019 - 19:18:00 EST




On 20 September 2019 6:33:50 am AEST, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:27 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>
>> please pull the dma-mapping updates for 5.4.
>
>Pulled.
>
>> In addition to the usual Kconfig conflics where you just want to keep
>> both edits there are a few more interesting merge issues this time:
>>
>> - most importanly powerpc and microblaze add new callers of
>> dma_atomic_pool_init, while this tree marks the function static
>> and calls it from a common postcore_initcall(). The trivial
>> functions added in powerpc and microblaze adding the calls
>> need to be removed for the code to compile. This will not show up
>> as a merge conflict and needs to be dealt with manually!
>
>So I haven't gotten the powerpc or microblaze pull requests yet, so
>I'm not able to fix that part up yet.
>
>Intead, I'm cc'ing Michael Ellerman and Michal Simek to ask them to
>remind me when they _do_ send those pull requests, since otherwise I
>may well forget and miss it. Without an actual data conflict, and
>since this won't show up in my build tests either, it would be very
>easy for me to forget.
>
>Micha[e]l, can you both please make sure to remind me?

Yeah I was aware of it, and will make sure to remind you in my pull request.

cheers

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