linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kmap_types: convert most arches to a single header file

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Message-Id: <200906050809.09856.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:09:07 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kmap_types: convert most arches to a single header file

On Friday 05 June 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > 1. The patch still conflicts with mine from the asm-generic
> > tree. Yours is better in multiple ways (cleans up all the
> > archs, adds the necessary types for ppc and arm), so should
> > I drop mine now? I guess I can also make my file identical
> > to yours so independent of who gets in first, there should be
> > a clean merge?
> 
> or you can take my patch into your asm-generic patchset.  :)

I've thought about that, but for 2.6.31, I'd like to only do
the first half of adding ~50 files to include/asm-generic/,
and then work with the arch maintainers on the second half,
removing the code from their directories for 2.6.32, so this
doesn't fit that well.

	Arnd <><
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