[PATCH 1/3] ARM: mmp: add sram allocator

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Mon Aug 15 09:23:49 EDT 2011


On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Some time ago, there was talk of merging the existing sram drivers
> and creating a common driver that is easy to hook into.

Absolutely.

> What has happened with that? My feeling is that we should stop adding
> more drivers like this in the platform code but rather put an
> authoritative copy into arch/arm/mm/ or even the top-level mm/ directory
> and change over the existing drivers to hook into that one.

IIRC, this was driven by Russell.  Maybe this is a good time to revive 
discussion around it.


Nicolas



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