[PATCH -v2 0/7] powerpc: use asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Thu Aug 13 18:55:05 EST 2009


* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> > Ben, what's your preference? I waited for your reaction with these 
> > bits, i.e. they are not in tip:core/iommu yet.
> 
> Oh I though they were... discard my previous private mail about 
> missing Ack's then :-)
> 
> I'll review them more in depth hopefully tomorrow but they look 
> good.

Sure - take your time.

> > One variant would be what Fujita suggested: you could pull 
> > core/iommu as a basis (it's a well-tested, problem-free tree at 
> > the moment, with no big risky items), and then pull/apply the 
> > powerpc specific bits from Fujita.
> 
> Or we can have the patches in core/iommu and I pull the whole 
> thing in powerpc-next. [...]

Ok! We could also stage it a bit (one or two weeks) in a separate 
branch and allow a rebase, should you find any bugs during testing?

	Ingo


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