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From: stefani on 4 Aug 2010 18:10 Zitat von Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>: > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:17:24 -0700 > Greg KH <gregkh(a)suse.de> wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:09:11PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote: >> > Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 12:46 -0700 schrieb Greg KH: >> > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote: >> > > > Hi, >> > > > >> > > > once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there >> is play plan to >> > > > merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no >> > > > reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer. >> > > >> > > These have been in the -mm tree for a few major kernel releases now, >> > > right? And they are API safe, and only change the internals, right? >> > > >> > > If so, I see no objection to merging them now, especially as you will be >> > > around to fix up any problems that people have, right? :) >> > > >> > >> > right! >> >> Great. As Andrew doesn't have the time to send them on, want me to? If >> so, care to point me at them in his tree, or resend them to me? >> > > One does a little more than "send things on"... > > I have a little pile of kfifo changes queud for 2.6.36. The "generic > kfifo" patches are a large rotorooting of the whole facility, based on > that work (I hope). > > There's also the abandoned > kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch > which never got resolved with the originator. > > This patch was included in the latest version i had posted last week. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Ira W. Snyder on 4 Aug 2010 19:30 On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:02:46AM +0200, stefani(a)seibold.net wrote: > > Zitat von Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>: > > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:17:24 -0700 > > Greg KH <gregkh(a)suse.de> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:09:11PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote: > >> > Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 12:46 -0700 schrieb Greg KH: > >> > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote: > >> > > > Hi, > >> > > > > >> > > > once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there > >> is play plan to > >> > > > merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no > >> > > > reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer. > >> > > > >> > > These have been in the -mm tree for a few major kernel releases now, > >> > > right? And they are API safe, and only change the internals, right? > >> > > > >> > > If so, I see no objection to merging them now, especially as you will be > >> > > around to fix up any problems that people have, right? :) > >> > > > >> > > >> > right! > >> > >> Great. As Andrew doesn't have the time to send them on, want me to? If > >> so, care to point me at them in his tree, or resend them to me? > >> > > > > One does a little more than "send things on"... > > > > I have a little pile of kfifo changes queud for 2.6.36. The "generic > > kfifo" patches are a large rotorooting of the whole facility, based on > > that work (I hope). > > > > There's also the abandoned > > kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch > > which never got resolved with the originator. > > > > > > This patch was included in the latest version i had posted last week. > Hello Stefani, Andrew, I've reviewed the updated patch from Stefani which has incorporated the fixes I suggested into the DMA routines. The DMA routines have my ack, though I have not ported any code to them yet. Thanks, Ira -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Andi Kleen on 5 Aug 2010 05:10 On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:46:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote: > > Hi, > > > > once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there is play plan to > > merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no > > reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer. > > These have been in the -mm tree for a few major kernel releases now, > right? And they are API safe, and only change the internals, right? I thought they changed the API. But generally to the better. The newer version seemed ok to me last time I looked. The older version it replaced had some issues. -Andi -- ak(a)linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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