linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] dma: rename write-combine APIs with short form

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Message-ID: <20150717203534.GD30479@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:35:34 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, vinod.koul@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] dma: rename write-combine APIs with short form

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 06:34:22PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
> 
> Ingo,
> 
> You had asked for this to be kept in my tree until the end of the
> merge window. I sent it a bit earlier than the end of the merge window,
> it failed to apply to Boris' tree as my series was based on linux-next
> and then I went on a small vacation. Boris is now on vacation as well.
> I've respinned this series today -- and fortunatley both of the patches
> in this series apply to both Linus' tree and linux-next, I am in hopes
> it applies to any other tree as well without conflicts. If not it should
> be easy to respin with the Coccinelle SmPL rule defined.
> 
> I'll note that there are a few outstanding series related to MTRR, but
> those do not have conflicts with these patches at all so feel free
> to consider these before or after. Also I tried to get an ack for the
> first patch [1] but that has gone under the radar I believe so
> merging it now as part of this series and Cc'ing the maintainers.
> That change is needed in order to make the code match the grammar
> used by Coccinelle used in the expressed transformation.
> 
> [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150601085332.GA14549@gmail.com
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434483609-25498-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
> 
> Luis R. Rodriguez (2):
>   drivers/dma/iop-adma: Use dma_alloc_writecombine() kernel-style
>   dma: rename dma_*_writecombine() to dma_*_wc()

This series requires some adjustments based on linux-next. Do we accept
renames on -rcs? If so should I respin? If its too late for v4.2 I can
try to shoot for v4.3 but timing sending this at the right exact time
seems a bit hard so any advice for that is highly appreciated.

  Luis
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