Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Frysinger <> | Subject | Re: What happened to vcoalesce? | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2011 11:17:26 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 09 November 2011 03:59:15 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > I'm using the kernel firmware loader on a blackfin board. And this > currently doesn't work with mainline since the firmware loader uses vmap. > In the ADI blackfin Linux tree there is a patch written by you, which > fixes this. > > What is the status of that patch in regard to going mainline? I found a > mailing-list post from January where you tried to submit it upstream, but > there was a minor bug in the patch and so the it was rejected. In March you > posted the fixed up version and from than on I couldn't find references to > it anymore.
my patch had a bug in the MMU case, so when David pushed it to Linus, Linus got grumpy and rejected them. i think i need to re-convince David to push the patches again now that i've fixed that bug.
David: could you comment ?
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