linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: misc: Add support for ANDROID

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Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:43:38 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Bálint Czobor <czoborbalint@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: misc: Add support for ANDROID_PMEM

On Friday 26 July 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:53:21PM +0200, Bálint Czobor wrote:
> > Thank you for the info.
> > However some devices still use it, sorry, I haven't seen that commit.
> 
> No modern Android devices should use pmem, only obsolete ones, right?
> That's why the code was removed.
> 
> Do you have a device that requires this?
> 
> You also mixed in a lot of device-specific changes, do you need those to
> be applied?  If so, please make up a separate patch and submit it.

One particular problem is that it adds a dependency between the pmem driver
and the mach-msm directory for header files. This conflicts with the attempt
to remove all global header files from mach-msm, which is needed to support
multiplatform kernels.

	Arnd
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