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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] gpu/drm, x86, PAT: Add PAT support for io_mapping_*
	interface
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* Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:

> >They will probably fix a few regressions and are easy to 
> >revert, plus they affect the one driver whose authors wrote 
> >these facilities:
> >
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
> >
> >so maybe we should try it as it's all a clear step forward. 
> >I'll give them a spin in tip:x86/urgent. Dunno.
> 
> Actual PAT support (patch 3 and 4) can probably wait until 
> .30. As there is only one user of this interface. Patch 1 and 
> 2 are more in bugfix category and probably considered for .29.

ok, i've delayed #3/#4 to .30 and kept #1/#2 in tip:x86/urgent. 
No complications so far with any of them.

	Ingo