[PATCH] cxgb4: use pgprot_writecombine() on powerpc

Nishanth Aravamudan nacc at us.ibm.com
Sat Apr 16 03:27:16 EST 2011


On 14.03.2011 [15:51:26 -0500], Steve Wise wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 03:36 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> >Commit fe3cc0d99de6a9bf99b6c279a8afb5833888c1f7 ("powerpc: Add
> >pgprot_writecombine") in benh's tree exposes the pgprot_writecombine()
> >API to drivers on powerpc. cxgb4 has an open-coded version of the same,
> >so use the common API now that it's available.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan<nacc at us.ibm.com>
> >Cc: Steve Wise<swise at opengridcomputing.com>
> >Cc: Anton Blanchard<anton at samba.org>
> >
> >---
> >
> >Given that this depends on a patch in Ben's tree, should this go in via
> >the powerpc tree? Presuming Steve acks it, of course.
> >
> >  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4.h |    5 +----
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> Acked-by: Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>
> 
> I suppose it should go into the same tree with the commit that adds this function.

Ben, I don't think this is in your tree yet, will you be taking it?

Thanks,
Nish


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