linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 3/6] arm64/arm, numa, dt: adding numa dt binding implementation for arm64 platforms.

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:39:26 +0000
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/6] arm64/arm, numa, dt: adding numa dt binding
 implementation for arm64 platforms.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Subject is "arm64/arm, numa, dt: adding ..."  What is the significance
> of the "arm" part?  The other patches only mention "arm64".
> 
> General comment: the code below has little, if anything, that is
> actually arm64-specific.  Maybe this is the first DT-based NUMA
> platform?  I don't see other similar code for other arches, so maybe
> it's too early to try to generalize it, but we should try to avoid
> adding duplicates of this code if/when other arches do show up.

Having it in the core code would allow us to share it with arch/arm/
fairly straightforwardly.

Will