linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Drop unused pages field from struct firmware

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Date:   Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:16:21 +0000
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Drop unused pages field from struct firmware

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 06:45:00PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> The struct firmware contains a page table pointer that was used only
> internally in the past.  Since the actual page tables are referred
> from struct fw_priv and should be never from struct firmware, we can
> drop this unused field gracefully.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>

  Luis