linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] ARM: Remove boilerplate debug_ll_io

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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2013 17:20:36 +0200
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ARM: Remove boilerplate debug_ll_io_init code

Hi Arnd,

Le 16/05/2013 00:40, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> On Monday 13 May 2013, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> The recent introduction of debug_ll_io_init made possible to not rely
>> anymore on a custom map_io function but on debug_ll_io_init for the
>> early mapping and then on the various drivers to do the needed mappings for
>> the kernel to boot.
>>
>> Some architectures begin to use only this function as the map_io callback in
>> the machine description.
>>
>> In order to remove some boilerplate code, make the ARM mm code call
>> debug_ll_io_init by itself when no .map_io callback is defined.
>>
>> This has been tested on the sunxi platform.
> 
> Great stuff!
> 
> I didn't notice the addition of debug_ll_io_init, so this is a nice surprise
> for me.

Well, you can thank Rob for that, I wasn't involved in it in the first
place :)

> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks,

How will we merge this? The first patch would be merged by Russel and
the 3 others by their respective maintainers?

Maxime

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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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