linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree

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Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:28:46 -0800
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2016 10:07 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>>
>> In reviewing the experimental/android-4.4 tree from AOSP, I
>> realized there were a handful of patches to code in the
>> staging/android directory.
>>
>> So I wanted to send these along for review, so if there were
>> no objections they could be queued for 4.6.
>>
>> Let me know if there is any comments or feedback
>
>
> I'm not thrilled about the patches for the cache policy. It certainly
> fixes the problem for x86 but I'd rather see a more unified caching
> approach which would also abstract some of the cache flushing.

Fair enough.

Though I worry that keeping them out of mainline's staging makes it
more difficult to get a proper solution upstream, since it creates
more out of tree variants, which users may have subtle dependencies
on.  But that's more of a general worry then a specific concern here.

thanks
-john