[GIT PULL] OMAP: mailbox and iommu changes: for-next for v2.6.38

[Kanigeri, Hari]

Ruseell,

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Guzman Lugo, Fernando
<fernando.lugo at ti.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 08:50:07AM -0600, Guzman Lugo, Fernando wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>>> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:07:23AM -0600, Kanigeri, Hari wrote:
>>> >> Hi Tony,
>>> >>
>>> >> The following changes since commit e8a7e48bb248a1196484d3f8afa53bded2b24e71:
>>> >>   Linus Torvalds (1):
>>> >>         Linux 2.6.37-rc4
>>> >>
>>> >> are available in the git repository at:
>>> >>
>>> >>   git://gitorious.org/iommu_mailbox/iommu_mailbox.git for_2.6.38
>>> >>
>>> >> Fernando Guzman Lugo (5):
>>> >>       OMAP: mailbox: change full flag per mailbox queue instead of global
>>> >>       omap: iovmm - no gap checking for fixed address
>>> >>       omap: iovmm - add superpages support to fixed da address
>>> >>       omap: iovmm - replace __iounmap with omap_iounmap
>>> >
>>> > This change is wrong.  Nothing should be directly referencing omap_iounmap
>>> > nor for that matter omap_ioremap.  Both are implementation details of the
>>> > standard ioremap/iounmap APIs.
>>> >
>>> > Use the official APIs rather than the implementation details behind them.
>>>
>>> if you see where the function is used, you will see that it is not
>>> calling the function, it is use as a parameter in unmap_vm_area(), if
>>> I used iounmap which is a macro there I will get a compilation error.
>>
>> Hmm, yes, because iounmap() is defined as a macro rather than iounmap.
>>
>> The solution to this is to fix iounmap and __arch_iounmap macros so
>> they aren't macros which take arguments.  That will then allow them
>> to be used in the way you desire.
>
> yes, that way it can be used in the function parameter. what is the
> right thing to do?
> 1) You send your patch and then I send the new version of the patches.
> 2) I make a new series of the patches with the change to iounmap and I
> include your patch in the series.
>

Can you please suggest the approach we take here ? So, either you send
your suggested change as a patch and Fernando's patch will be based on
it, or he can take a TODO action item to patch again if you plan to
send this change later.


Thank you,
Best regards,
Hari Kanigeri