From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751880AbbGMHzf (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2015 03:55:35 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:35757 "EHLO mail-ob0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751139AbbGMHzc (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2015 03:55:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150712102527.356151908@telegraphics.com.au> References: <20150712102527.356151908@telegraphics.com.au> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:55:31 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GT3H-Z7dazBO5pqXcuMUznYeuVo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC v4 00/25] Re-use nvram module From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Finn Thain Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Linux/m68k" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Finn, On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > The generic NVRAM module, drivers/char/generic_nvram, implements a > /dev/nvram misc device. It is used only by 32-bit PowerPC platforms and > isn't generic enough to be more widely used. [...] Thanks for your work! How are we gonna merge this? Have you looked into the dependencies? Are there (large) parts we can merge in parallel? Thanks again! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds