On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:03:40 -0600 Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > But in a better world, the core kernel would support your machines > > adequately and you wouldn't need to maintain that out-of-tree MM code. > > What are the prospects of this? > > We can put it on our todo list. Getting a user of this infrastructure > will require changes by Dimitri for the GRU driver (drivers/misc/sgi-gru). > He is currently focused on getting the design of some upcoming hardware > finalized and design changes tested in our simulation environment so he > will be consumed for the next several months. > > If you would like, I can clean up the driver in my spare time and submit > it for review. Would you consider allowing its inclusion without the > GRU driver as a user? >From Cliff's description it sounded like that driver is duplicating/augmenting core MM functions. I was more wondering whether core MM could be enhanced so that driver becomes obsolete? > In the transition period, could we allow this change in and then remove > the exports as part of that driver being accepted? That would help us > with an upcoming distro release. I'm OK with this patch for 3.9-rc1. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>