linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added

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Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:34:32 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>
To:	Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Pawel Osciak <p.osciak@...sung.com>,
	Xiaolin Zhang <xiaolin.zhang@...el.com>,
	Hiremath Vaibhav <hvaibhav@...com>,
	Robert Fekete <robert.fekete@...ricsson.com>,
	Marcus Lorentzon <marcus.xm.lorentzon@...ricsson.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 22:22 +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:03:24 +0200, Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 21:53 +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
> >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:37:09 +0200, Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> >> > What makes you assume that the bootloader would have these strings?
> >> > Do your devices have these strings? Maybe mine don't have them.
> >>
> >> I don't assume.  I only state it as one of the possibilities.
> >>
> >> > Assume the strings are gone and you can't find them, or have no idea
> >> > what they should be. What do you do then?
> >>
> >> Ask Google?
> >
> > Exactly, that's why they need to be in the kernel ..
> 
> Right.....  Please show me a place where I've written that it won't be in
> the kernel? I keep repeating command line is only one of the possibilities.
> I would imagine that in final product defaults from platform would be used
> and bootloader would be left alone.

It should never be anyplace else.

Daniel

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