[GIT PULL] Linux support for ARM LPAE

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Dec 7 06:23:20 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:30:58PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 02:07:29PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > This patch wasn't
> > originally part of my LPAE series as I hoped you would have merged it
> > during the last cycle. Now it had to be part of the pull request as LPAE
> > patches depend on it.
> 
> I've stated many times why it's not merged, and for the N'th time: it
> generates warnings.  I'm _not_ merging something that is known to add
> warnings such as those which this patch produces without there being a
> fix for it.  You know that _very well_ because I've said it several
> times, not only by email but also on our various phone calls.
> 
> I've dealt with this patch in exactly the same way at every merge window
> we've had for the last _year_ - I've queued it up with the expectation
> that hopefully someone would fix the warnings, the warnings didn't get
> fixed, so it got dropped from the pull request.  Immediately after the
> merge window (which includes this) it gets reinstated back into
> linux-next.

Yes, I'm fully aware, and I sent you a fix-up in the past. I can
re-write that fix-up in a few other ways if you don't like the current
one, just let me know.

-- 
Catalin



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