[PATCH v5 RESEND] IFC: Change IO accessor based on endianness
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 09:44:50 AEST 2015
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 06:24:38PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 09:52 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > Who takes patches for drivers/memory/ again? I can take it via MTD if
> > no one else steps up.
> There's no maintainer listed. IIRC, when we previously discussed the patch
> we both said that it could go via either of our trees. I'll take it via mine.
I recall the conversation. I was just confused (again) by there being no
maintainer entry. Have at it.
> > It's nothing new, but this patch continues the pattern of using a global
> > pointer to the IFC device structure. Not pretty, but not worth holding
> > this up over.
>
> It's not pretty, but I see little reason to come up with more complicated
> infrastructure for the drivers finding each other given the low odds of ever
> seeing a single-kernel system with more than one IFC. It's impossible with
> current chips. If it ever does happen we can do something fancier.
Yep, I figured as much.
Brian
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