On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:56:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 10:50:37AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Note that both Thomas and Steven have series touching this area pending, > > > and there are a couple consumer in flux too - the hmm tree already > > > conflicts with this series, and I have potential dma changes on top of > > > the consumers in Thomas and Steven's series, so we'll probably need a > > > git tree similar to the hmm one to synchronize these updates. > > > > I'd be willing to just merge this now, if that helps. The conversion > > is mechanical, and my only slight worry would be that at least for my > > original patch I didn't build-test the (few) non-x86 > > architecture-specific cases. But I did end up looking at them fairly > > closely (basically using some grep/sed scripts to see that the > > conversions I did matched the same patterns). And your changes look > > like obvious improvements too where any mistake would have been caught > > by the compiler. > > I did cross compile the s390 and powerpc bits, but I do not have an > openrisc compiler. The openrisc defconfig builds fine. > > So I'm not all that worried from a functionality standpoint, and if > > this will help the next merge window, I'll happily pull now. > > That would help with this series vs the others, but not with the other > series vs each other. > -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
