[PATCH 3/4] Revert 75f4aa1 (unconditionally define __virt_to_phys and __phys_to_virt)

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 19 11:54:22 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:46:57PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:34 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:22:04PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > The SPARSEMEM support for RealView PBX requires non-linear physical to
> > > virtual address translation.
> > 
> > Since we have two platforms which are wanting this, I think this shouldn't
> > be a separate patch, but merely just a 'git revert' of the original.
> 
> Well, git revert just generates another commit with a different author
> and a reverted diff from the original commit. My patch just adds a
> different comment from the standard one.

I think it's sensible to keep at least the summary line of a 'git revert'
intact rather than inventing our own.

> Will you revert this commit in your tree? I don't know how to submit
> "git revert" commands to the patch system :-).

Done.



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