Re: [PATCH 0/2] lib/scatterlist: sg_page_iter: support for memory w/o backing pages

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:57:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:50:20 +0100 Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 03:14:17PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> > > When adding sg_page_iter I haven't thought properly through the use case
> > > for sg lists w/o backing pages - which is specific to the i915 driver -
> > > so this patchset adds support for this.
> > > 
> > > It applies on the i915 tree [1], where the iterator is in use already.
> > > 
> > > [1] git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel [nightly branch]
> > 
> > i915 patches are already included in linux-next, so should apply on top of
> > that, too. So can this go in through -mm for 3.10 or should I slurp it in
> > through drm-intel trees (once it passes review)? I'd like to ditch the
> > dummy page hack we're currently using (i.e. patch 2).
> 
> Please slurp it - there's little benefit in spreading it across two trees.

Done, patches should show up in linux-next soon.
-Daniel
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