On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 09:04 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 08:10 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 10:57 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Ping? We are planning to remove support for __get_cpu_var in the > > > 3.19 merge period. I can move the definition for __get_cpu_var into the > > > powerpc per cpu definition instead if we cannot get this merged? > > > > Yes, yes, I know, we should merge that, Michael, can you still throw > > that in ? > > For 3.18, nah. We didn't even see it until after the merge window had closed.
No, we did see it a long time ago Michael, we just forgot about it. We should put it in, everybody else has their equivalent. > I realise they're all fairly simple translations, but it's too big and too > easy > for one of them to be wrong. > > I'm happy to put it in a topic branch for 3.19, or move the definition or > whatever, your choice Christoph. But then we'll have a tricky sync needed to make sure the removal of __get_cpu_var() doesn't get into Linus tree before this. Unless we just ack the whole lot and let Christoph carry it in the same branch where the removal is. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
