Re: [PATCH -v2 0/7] powerpc: use asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2009-08-13 08:10:10
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Ben, what's your preference? I waited for your reaction with these bits, i.e. they are not in tip:core/iommu yet.
Oh I though they were... discard my previous private mail about missing Ack's then :-) I'll review them more in depth hopefully tomorrow but they look good.
One variant would be what Fujita suggested: you could pull core/iommu as a basis (it's a well-tested, problem-free tree at the moment, with no big risky items), and then pull/apply the powerpc specific bits from Fujita.
Or we can have the patches in core/iommu and I pull the whole thing in powerpc-next. My main concern isn't which tree they go through but that they are in powerpc-next for better testing. Cheers, Ben.
A second variant would be that we could pull these bits into core/iommu ... albeit you are right that the PowerPC tree is much better at testing PowerPC patches. A third variant would be to wait with these bits until the swiotlb bits in core/iommu hit upstream. This would increase patch latency. Any of these variants is good to me. What Fujita suggests seems to be the best to me: #1 gets us the most testing and the lowest latency - at the cost of tree dependency. We wont rebase core/iommu. [ We've got three good tree properties: "tree independence", "good testing", "low patch latency", but we cannot have all three at once, we must pick two of them ;-) ] Ingo