linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: mmp: add sram allocator

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1108150920060.20358@xanadu.home>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:23:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:	Leo Yan <leoy@...vell.com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Haojian Zhuang <hzhuang1@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: mmp: add sram allocator

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Some time ago, there was talk of merging the existing sram drivers
> and creating a common driver that is easy to hook into.

Absolutely.

> What has happened with that? My feeling is that we should stop adding
> more drivers like this in the platform code but rather put an
> authoritative copy into arch/arm/mm/ or even the top-level mm/ directory
> and change over the existing drivers to hook into that one.

IIRC, this was driven by Russell.  Maybe this is a good time to revive 
discussion around it.


Nicolas
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