linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem

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Message-ID: <20090419090208.GA30211@elte.hu>
Date:	Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:02:08 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, yannick.roehlly@...e.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v4


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > And that _is_ a really odd hole. I wonder what it is all about. 
> > But the approach does seem to have done the right thing.
> 
> I'll commit the reserve_region_with_split() change. There are no 
> actual users of it now, so committing that change doesn't really 
> do anything, but I like removing code, and with the only current 
> potential user actively wanting just the simpler behavior, why 
> keep the code around?

Cool! Yinghai, mind (re-)sending the latest version of the remaining 
two patches, so what we can pick this up into the x86 tree and get 
it tested? I'd say it's for v2.6.31. (unless someone can think of a 
strong reason to do this sooner.)

Thanks,

	Ingo
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