linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] make swiotlb prototypes generic

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Message-ID: <20080811174349.GP4524@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:43:49 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make swiotlb prototypes generic


* Luck, Tony <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:

> > this small series of patches introduce a generic header file for the software
> > IO/TLB implementation in lib/swiotlb.c. Currently each architecture using this
> > code defines the prototypes itself. The prototypes are moved to
> > include/linux/swiotlb.h and this file is included in architecture specific code
> > for X86 and IA64. The changes are compile tested for both architectures.
> 
> Boot tested on ia64 (using generic_defconfig, tiger_defconfig and 
> zx1_defconfig).

given that this touches both x86 and ia64, i suspect queueing it in -mm 
(as it is already) and merging it upstream from there would be the best 
approach?

	Ingo
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