On Wednesday 09 November 2011 03:59:15 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> I'm using the kernel firmware loader on a blackfin board. And this
> currently doesn't work with mainline since the firmware loader uses vmap.
> In the ADI blackfin Linux tree there is a patch written by you, which
> fixes this.
> 
> What is the status of that patch in regard to going mainline? I found a
> mailing-list post from January where you tried to submit it upstream, but
> there was a minor bug in the patch and so the it was rejected. In March you
> posted the fixed up version and from than on I couldn't find references to
> it anymore.

my patch had a bug in the MMU case, so when David pushed it to Linus, Linus 
got grumpy and rejected them.  i think i need to re-convince David to push the 
patches again now that i've fixed that bug.

David: could you comment ?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/24/386
-mike