Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:14:08 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] toshiba: Use ioremap_cached |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:15:59 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > The switch of ioremap to default to uncached doesn't break this driver > > but it does needlessly slow it down as BIOS space is cachable and this > > driver is quite happy scanning cached ROM space. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > i suspect this shouldnt go via x86.git but i've queued it up to track > it.
Please don't "queue things up to track them". Just queue them up to merge them, or don't queue them at all.
Because if you queue it up then I will not. If you later for some reason unqueue it then volia, it is lost. We should aim to avoid having multiple copies of a patch sitting around the place.
I shall not merge this patch - it is yours.
> Is there an active maintainer for this file?
drivers/char/*? Very rarely maintained. git-whatchanged tells the story on this one: no.
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