From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030877AbXDYNtn (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:49:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030929AbXDYNtn (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:49:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55698 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030877AbXDYNtl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:49:41 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 Directors: Michael Cunningham (USA), Charlie Peters (USA) and David Owens (Ireland) From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20070420.015838.83621529.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070420.015838.83621529.davem@davemloft.net> <29341.1176975158@redhat.com> <2969.1176992303@redhat.com> <1101.1177056127@redhat.com> To: David Miller Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, oleg@tv-sign.ru, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Getting the new RxRPC patches upstream X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:48:39 +0100 Message-ID: <13634.1177508919@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > Is it possible for your changes to be purely networking > and not need those changes outside of the networking? See my latest patchset release. I've reduced the dependencies on non-networking changes to: (1) Oleg Nesterov's patch to change cancel_delayed_work() to use del_timer() rather than del_timer_sync() [patch 02/16]. This patch can be discarded without compilation failure at the expense of making AFS slightly less efficient. It also makes AF_RXRPC slightly less efficient, but only in the rmmod path. (2) A symbol export in the keyring stuff plus a proliferation of the types available in the struct key::type_data union [patch 03/16]. This does not conflict with any other patches that I know about. (3) A symbol export in the timer stuff [patch 04/16]. Everything else that remains after the reduction is confined to the AF_RXRPC or AFS code, save for a couple of networking patches in my patchset that you already have and I just need to make the thing compile. I'm not sure that I can make the AF_RXRPC patches totally independent of the AFS patches as the two sets need to interleave since the last AF_RXRPC patch deletes the old RxRPC code - which the old AFS code depends on. David