linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: tidspbridge fixes for 3.7

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:25:42 -0500
From:	Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@...itl.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Victor Manuel Jaquez Leal <vjaquez@...lia.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: tidspbridge fixes for 3.7

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 05:09:14PM -0500, Omar Ramirez Luna wrote:
>> With 3.7-rc1 changes:
>>
>> - New irq numbering in OMAP3 broke the driver request for a mmu irq,
>>   until this is migrated to the common iommu framework we can only
>>   hardcode the new number.
>> - _raw_* accessors changed a type of one of their parameters with patch
>>   "195bbca ARM: 7500/1: io: avoid writeback addressing modes for
>>   __raw_ accessors", so the build system was filled with warnings from
>>   the old parameter usage.
>>
>> Omar Ramirez Luna (6):
>>   staging: tidspbridge: request the right irq for mmu
>>   staging: tidspbridge: drop const from custom mmu implementation
>>   staging: tidspbridge: change type to __iomem for per and core
>>     addresses
>>   staging: tidspbridge: ioremap dsp sync addr
>>   staging: tidspbridge: ioremap physical address of the stack segment
>>     in shm
>>   staging: tidspbridge: delete unused mmu functions
>
> Are the "fix up the compiler warning" patches really needed for 3.7?
> Are they new in 3.7-rc1?  Or were they there before in 3.6?

All are new in 3.7-rc1.

The "warning fixes" would be good to have and thought they could make
it given that the change was introduced during 3.7 rc cycle. So, the
warnings are not that critical.

Cheers,

Omar
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