[PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Mon Jul 17 14:20:25 PDT 2017
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 01:44:45PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:39:28 +0200
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be> wrote:
>
> > All low-level PM/SMP code using virt_to_phys() should actually use
> > __pa_symbol() against kernel symbols. Update the documentation to move
> > away from virt_to_phys().
> >
> > Cfr. commit 6996cbb2372189f7 ("ARM: 8641/1: treewide: Replace uses of
> > virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol")
>
> I was kind of hoping for an ack from somebody on this, but, four months
> later, I'll take the absence of complaints as being enough. Applied,
> thanks.
Maybe those who contributed Documentation/arm/firmware.txt should
have responded, seems that was Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
who isn't even on the Cc list for this...
Can't blame people who aren't copied with the patch for not
responding.
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