linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the arm64 tree

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Date:   Fri, 7 Apr 2017 19:25:54 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the arm64 tree

Hi Catalin,

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:48:35 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for fixing this up. Not ideal, indeed, but I can push a clean-up
> patch after -rc1 to move set_memory_valid() to an arm64-specific
> set_memory.h (which would include asm-generic/set_memory.h). Given that
> my for-next branch is based on 4.11-rc3, I can't do this now without
> risking breaking other things.

Actually, I suspect that the patch in Andrew's series will be updated
to do that.  This part of Andrew's patch series is applied on top of
all the other linux-next trees and is sent to Linus fairly late in the
merge window.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell