[PATCH 1/2] genalloc: add support of named pool

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Mon Feb 6 21:52:12 EST 2012


On 15:20 Mon 06 Feb     , Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun,  5 Feb 2012 19:29:35 +0100
> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > so we can get the pool in the driver by name instead of passing it via
> > parameter
> > 
> > this will be use on AT91 to get access from different drivers to the sram or
> > gpbr as example
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> > ---
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	if you don't mind I'll apply this via at91 tree as it's needed to
> > 	finish a cleanup on at91 to allow multiple soc in the same kernel
> 
> Please do not do this.
> 
> The patch is still as buggy as it was when I reviewed it in December. 
> You didn't reply to my review email and you didn't reply to Steven
> Rothwell's review email and you fixed almost none of our review
> comments.
I did

all comment from Stephen Rothwell as integrated

I put the lock on the list as you request
I drop the race condition

I put the example

so what did I miss?

Best Regards,
J.



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