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

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Hi Russell,

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 01:44:45PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Maybe those who contributed Documentation/arm/firmware.txt should
> have responded, seems that was Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>
> who isn't even on the Cc list for this...

Ah, get_maintainer.pl didn't report Tomasz' Samsung email address, which
bounces for sure ;-)

> Can't blame people who aren't copied with the patch for not
> responding.

I did copy the people responsible for the __pa_symbol conversion.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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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
  Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys  with __pa_symbol Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-18 18:50 +0200

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