[PATCH v5 02/14] efi: use early_memremap and early_memunmap
Dave Young
dyoung at redhat.com
Wed Dec 11 21:04:26 EST 2013
On 12/11/13 at 10:39am, Matt Fleming wrote:
> (Cc'ing Leif and Mark for the ARM-side of things)
>
> On Mon, 09 Dec, at 05:42:15PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > In arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c and drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c turn to use
> > early_memremap/early_memunmap instead of early_ioremap/early_iounmap so sparse
> > will be happy.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 4 ++--
> > 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> This looks like a rather nice cleanup but the commit log could use a
> little bit of tweaking...
>
> - Please start your commit title (the part after the subsystem tag)
> with a capital letter, e.g.
>
> efi: Use early_memremap...
>
> - You need to explain in the commit title that you're fixing a sparse
> warning. Anyone reading the patch subject will have no idea _why_
> you're using early_memremap() and early_memunmap().
>
> - In the commit message body explain why sparse is currently unhappy.
Sure, will do.
--
Thanks for review
Dave
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