From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc•com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, akpm@linux-foundation•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Generic NVRAM support for large MMIO devices
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:25:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A697E22.2080609@gefanuc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248335077.3367.79.camel@pasglop>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:12 +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
>
>> The following series allows the generic NVRAM driver to access MMIO
>> based NVRAMs. In addition it enables support for NVRAMs of sizes
>> differing from those found on PowerPC Macs (providing a safe
>> fallback). Patches are also included to enable support for the NVRAM
>> found on the GE Fanuc PPC9A, SBC310 and SBC610.
>>
>> If this patch series is unsuitable this late in the day for 2.6.31,
>> please concider it for 2.6.32.
>>
>
> No major issue with the series other than the change to the generic
> nvram code which needs to not break other architectures :-) Also,
> it will probably need to go through Andrew Morton, unless there's
> a maintainer for that driver, is there ?
>
I'm not aware of a maintainer for the "generic nvram" driver. As
mentioned in my other email, I'm fairly confident that this driver
(/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c) is only used on PowerPC. I'm beginning
to enter what is for me uncharted territory :-) How should I proceed?
Are you happy to take the entire patch series, do I send the entire
patch series to Andrew and LKML or just patch 2/5?
Martyn
> Once you sort out that aspect of the patch series, I'm happy to take
> the rest in powerpc.git
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-02 16:12 [PATCH 0/5] Generic NVRAM support for large MMIO devices Martyn Welch
2009-07-02 16:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] Allow byte length reads from mmio NVRAM driver Martyn Welch
2009-07-02 16:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] Mechanism to enable use Generic NVRAM driver for different size chips Martyn Welch
2009-07-23 7:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-23 11:31 ` Martyn Welch
2009-08-13 7:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-13 8:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Martyn Welch
2009-08-13 8:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-02 16:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] powerpc/86xx: Enable NVRAM on GE Fanuc's SBC610 Martyn Welch
2009-11-05 14:10 ` Kumar Gala
2009-11-05 14:23 ` Martyn Welch
2009-11-05 14:41 ` Kumar Gala
2009-11-05 14:53 ` Martyn Welch
2009-11-12 14:03 ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-02 16:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc/86xx: Support for NVRAM on GE Fanuc's SBC310 Martyn Welch
2009-11-12 14:04 ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-02 16:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc/86xx: Support for NVRAM on GE Fanuc's PPC9A Martyn Welch
2009-11-12 14:04 ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-23 7:44 ` [PATCH 0/5] Generic NVRAM support for large MMIO devices Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-24 9:25 ` Martyn Welch [this message]
2009-07-24 10:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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