From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262712AbUKRKXg (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:23:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262715AbUKRKWd (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:22:33 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:7396 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262712AbUKRKOo (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:14:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:14:19 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Ian Pratt" Cc: Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, haveblue@us.ibm.com, Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: [patch 2] Xen core patch : arch_free_page return value Message-Id: <20041118021419.0c0d1dad.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Ian Pratt" wrote: > > We forwarded the patches around > so many different people for comment before sending them to lkml that > somewhere along the line something bad happned. Just send 'em to linux-kernel first-up and cc everyone else. That way you avoid duplication of effort and everyone is on the same page. I'm still struggling to understand the rationale behind the mem.c change btw. io_remap_page_range() _is_ remap_page_range() (or, now, remap_pfn_range()) on x86. So whatever the patch is supposed to be doing, it's a no-op.