Re: [RESEND:PATCH] [ARM] clearpage: provide our own clear_user_highpage()

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 06:22:11 EST


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:07:55AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:29:20AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:19:59 -0600 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > We'd like to pull this trick on parisc as well (another VIPT
> > > architecture), so you can add my ack.
> >
> > If this is going to be used by more than one architecture during the next
> > merge window, then maybe the change to include/linux/highmem.h could be
> > extracted to its own patch and sent to Linus for inclusion in 2.6.28.
> > This way we avoid some conflicts and the architectures can do their
> > updates independently.
>
> I plan to use it on VIPT SH also, so getting the higmem.h change in by
> itself sooner rather than later would certainly be welcome.

I'll queue the change to linux/highmem.h for when Linus gets back then.
Can I assume that Hugh and James are happy for their ack to apply to
both parts of the split patch? And do I have your ack as well?

Thanks.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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