From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753400Ab1HONca (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:32:30 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:45443 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752720Ab1HONc1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:32:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:32:07 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Leo Yan , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, lkml , Haojian Zhuang Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: mmp: add sram allocator Message-ID: <20110815133207.GG26827@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1313377794-26721-1-git-send-email-leoy@marvell.com> <1313377794-26721-2-git-send-email-leoy@marvell.com> <1403041.Yj2MdIhcZO@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:23:49AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > Some time ago, there was talk of merging the existing sram drivers > > and creating a common driver that is easy to hook into. > > Absolutely. > > > What has happened with that? My feeling is that we should stop adding > > more drivers like this in the platform code but rather put an > > authoritative copy into arch/arm/mm/ or even the top-level mm/ directory > > and change over the existing drivers to hook into that one. > > IIRC, this was driven by Russell. Maybe this is a good time to revive > discussion around it. As I understand it, Jean-Christophe's patches were essentially a replacement for my infrastructure changes, and it is Jean-Christophe's patches which went in. So, my work is obsolete. I'm not sure what else there is to be done here - if Jean-Christophe's genpool interfaces are not sufficient, maybe when the discussion surrounding my patches and Jean-Christophe's patches happened, maybe someone should've sorted out finishing off Jean-Christophe's patches to the same extent that mine have. Or maybe my patches should've been merged instead of Jean-Christophe's and Jean-Christophe's brought forward to plug into the core of my patches. Either way, I completely gave up with the idea because I saw no future for my patches, and now I'm no longer interested in it.