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Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol

From Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol
Date 2017-07-17 21:50 +0200
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:39:28 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote:

> All low-level PM/SMP code using virt_to_phys() should actually use
> __pa_symbol() against kernel symbols.  Update the documentation to move
> away from virt_to_phys().
> 
> Cfr. commit 6996cbb2372189f7 ("ARM: 8641/1: treewide: Replace uses of
> virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol")

I was kind of hoping for an ack from somebody on this, but, four months
later, I'll take the absence of complaints as being enough.  Applied,
thanks.

jon

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[PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> - 2017-07-17 15:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys  with __pa_symbol Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2017-07-17 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys  with __pa_symbol Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-07-17 23:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys  with __pa_symbol Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-07-18 09:20 +0200

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