From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, paulus@samba•org,
Russell King <rmk@arm•linux.org.uk>,
david@gibson•dropbear.id.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use resource_size_t for serial port IO addresses
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:34:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070723123411.07fc6568.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185199717.4268.5.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:08:37 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux•vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:06 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > > This is something we should do, but I have recollections of Russell
> > > identifying problems with this patch, or at least an earlier version of it?
> >
> > Basically, there's two patches. This one (let's call this patch A)
> > and another to prevent users being surprised (let's call that patch B).
> >
> > I didn't have any real objections to patch A, provided something like
> > patch B was merged. I did have objections against patch B, and I was
> > intermittently working on a revised solution.
> >
> > However, for whatever reason [*], during the last merge window patch B
> > got merged and patch A got dropped, and as a result I've now given up
> > with my revised solution, and TBH, I no longer care.
>
> Patch B in this case was commit abb4a2390. Since that has already been
> merged, can we please merge this patch into 2.6.23? I'd really like to
> avoid 44x not working in yet another kernel, so if this patch can't be
> merged I'll have to come up with some alternate solution soon.
>
I still have a large pile of not-completely-obviously-ready patches to go
through, of which this is one.
There _were_ issues with this patch when it first turned up, but I failed
to record what they were.
Oh well, here's hoping it got fixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 14:02 [PATCH] Use resource_size_t for serial port IO addresses Josh Boyer
2007-07-13 19:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 19:24 ` Josh Boyer
2007-07-15 11:06 ` Russell King
2007-07-23 14:08 ` Josh Boyer
2007-07-23 19:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-24 1:57 ` David Gibson
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