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Message-ID: <20120614002234.GB29785@lizard>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:22:34 -0700
From:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>, arve@...roid.com,
	Rebecca Schultz Zavin <rebecca@...roid.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/11] Merge ram_console into pstore

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 05:05:04PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:17:48AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > The old ram_console driver is removed. This might probably cause
> > some pain for out-of-tree code, as it would need to be adjusted...
> > but "no pain, no gain"? :-) Though, if there's some serious resistance,
> > we can probably postpone the last two patches.
> 
> What out-of-tree code would care about this?

Vendors' board-support code, namely Android/ARM out-of-tree board
support files that happened to use ram_console for debugging. The
affected code in question would be just a few lines related to the
ram_console platform device registration, so no big deal.

> Anyway, all now applied, thanks for working on this.

Thank you!

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@...il.com
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