On Friday 19 June 2015 15:08:23 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> > > Arnd, > > After a long-winded conversation with Bjorn over use of > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL() he's noted he'd > be OK if this goes through you as an alternative. This series > goes unmodified from the last posted v6 series, I am just > reposting and addressing this to you now in hopes you might > be comfortable with my use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() on new > PAT interfaces. I use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for new PAT symbols, > this parallels Ingo's stated preference as "we don't want > proprietary modules mucking around with new code PAT interfaces, > we only want modules we can analyze and fix in detail" [1]. > Other than this Bjorn seemed comfortable with the series and > even had provided an Ack to the series, the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() > thing was the ony thing he was not comfortable with, and also > that of the devres change going in with no users yet. > > Tomi has already Ack'd the framebuffer driver specific changes > and is comfortable with the driver changes to go through the > tree that the depending symbols depend on. > > I typically had submitted two series for these patches but since > the patches are all related and now already Acked I've bundled > them together and rebased them on top of today's linux-next tree. > This series is part of a larger effort to help avoid direct use > of MTRR code and instead replace it with more generic PAT > interfaces, I posted a full description of the entire series > recently [2]. > > Please let me know if there are any issues. > Hi Luis, sorry for messing up your plans, but I'm currently on parental leave and not taking any patches for arm-soc or asm-generic until I'm back at work in around 3 months. I've briefly looked at your patches and they all look reasonable to me, but it would be best if you could find someone else to take them. Please an my 'Acked-by' to patches 1, 5 and 6. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
