Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:12 +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
  

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The following series allows the generic NVRAM driver to access MMIO
based NVRAMs. In addition it enables support for NVRAMs of sizes
differing from those found on PowerPC Macs (providing a safe
fallback). Patches are also included to enable support for the NVRAM
found on the GE Fanuc PPC9A, SBC310 and SBC610.

If this patch series is unsuitable this late in the day for 2.6.31,
please concider it for 2.6.32.
    

No major issue with the series other than the change to the generic
nvram code which needs to not break other architectures :-) Also,
it will probably need to go through Andrew Morton, unless there's
a maintainer for that driver, is there ?
  

I'm not aware of a maintainer for the "generic nvram" driver. As 
mentioned in my other email, I'm fairly confident that this driver 
(/drivers/char/generic_nvram.c) is only used on PowerPC. I'm beginning 
to enter what is for me uncharted territory :-) How should I proceed? 
Are you happy to take the entire patch series, do I send the entire 
patch series to Andrew and LKML or just patch 2/5?

Martyn

Once you sort out that aspect of the patch series, I'm happy to take
the rest in powerpc.git

Cheers,
Ben.

  

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