linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa

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Message-ID: <20170717212025.GM31807@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 22:20:25 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys
 with __pa_symbol

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 01:44:45PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:39:28 +0200
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:
> 
> > All low-level PM/SMP code using virt_to_phys() should actually use
> > __pa_symbol() against kernel symbols.  Update the documentation to move
> > away from virt_to_phys().
> > 
> > Cfr. commit 6996cbb2372189f7 ("ARM: 8641/1: treewide: Replace uses of
> > virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol")
> 
> I was kind of hoping for an ack from somebody on this, but, four months
> later, I'll take the absence of complaints as being enough.  Applied,
> thanks.

Maybe those who contributed Documentation/arm/firmware.txt should
have responded, seems that was Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>
who isn't even on the Cc list for this...

Can't blame people who aren't copied with the patch for not
responding.

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