Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: misc: Add support for ANDROID_PMEM

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat Jul 27 2013 - 10:44:07 EST


On Friday 26 July 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:53:21PM +0200, Bálint Czobor wrote:
> > Thank you for the info.
> > However some devices still use it, sorry, I haven't seen that commit.
>
> No modern Android devices should use pmem, only obsolete ones, right?
> That's why the code was removed.
>
> Do you have a device that requires this?
>
> You also mixed in a lot of device-specific changes, do you need those to
> be applied? If so, please make up a separate patch and submit it.

One particular problem is that it adds a dependency between the pmem driver
and the mach-msm directory for header files. This conflicts with the attempt
to remove all global header files from mach-msm, which is needed to support
multiplatform kernels.

Arnd
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