From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
jejb@steeleye.com, James.Smart@Emulex.Com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop some attibutes from the FC transport class
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:41:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050120144134.GA13036@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120051200.GA20064@lists.us.dell.com>
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:12:00PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > Here it was against 2.6.9. Odds are it doesn't apply anymore due to
> > some recent changes in this area. If anyone wants to take it and fix it
> > up, please do so.
> >
> > Note, this patch needs the evil strdup() function to work properly.
> > That's one of the main reasons I decided to not submit it to the main
> > kernel tree...
>
> How would you feel if instead, we just didn't drop the .modinfo
> section? That would eliminate the need to copy the strings, and then
> the field##_get_function would just use the string from the .modinfo
> section directly?
That makes sense to me, but you might want to ask Rusty about it, as
it's his code.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-20 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-19 17:13 [PATCH] drop some attibutes from the FC transport class Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-19 17:21 ` Greg KH
2005-01-19 18:38 ` Brian King
2005-01-19 18:45 ` Greg KH
2005-01-19 22:59 ` Brian King
2005-01-19 21:39 ` Mike Anderson
2005-01-19 22:40 ` Greg KH
2005-01-19 23:03 ` Brian King
2005-01-19 23:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-19 23:08 ` Greg KH
2005-01-19 23:15 ` Matt Domsch
2005-01-19 23:42 ` Greg KH
2005-01-20 5:12 ` Matt Domsch
2005-01-20 14:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-01-26 6:05 ` [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] modules: add version and srcversion to sysfs Matt Domsch
2005-01-26 9:22 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-26 14:09 ` Matt Domsch
2005-01-26 16:38 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-27 17:03 ` Matt Domsch
2005-01-27 17:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-01-26 14:32 ` Paulo Marques
2005-01-27 2:10 ` Rusty Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-19 17:25 [PATCH] drop some attibutes from the FC transport class James.Smart
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