Re: [Outreachy kernel] [Outreachy][PATCH 0/3] staging: Replace snprintf() with scnprintf()

[Deepak R Varma <mh12gx2825@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 08:09:25AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:32:40AM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 07:38:57AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:02:43AM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 08:21:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:41:42AM +0530, Sumera Priyadarsini wrote:
> > > > > > The show() methods in device attributes should return the number of
> > > > > > bytes printed into the buffer which is the return value of scnprintf(). 
> > > > > > snprintf() returns the potential number of bytes that could be written
> > > > > > which may be greater than the actual length to be written.
> > > > > 
> > > > > There's a big patchset just gone into 5.10 yesterday which adds a new
> > > > > sysfs_emit() for show methods.  You probably want to use that instead
> > > > > of scnprintf().
> > > > > 
> > > > Hello Matthew,
> > > > I am able to build my staging branch into 5.9.0-rc8 release. Can you
> > > > please suggest how can I get 5.10?
> > > 
> > > Pull from Linus's tree right now, or pull from linux-next.
> > 
> > Thank you Greg. I assume you are fine with patches sent from that tree
> > base.
> 
> For the time up to 5.10-rc1, no, you need to work off of my
> staging-testing branch as there is no way for me to merge new stuff into
> linux-next until 5.10-rc1 comes out, sorry.
> 
> The middle of the merge window is a rough time to try to get new work
> done, maintainers are not allowed to really take it.  I'm trying to be
> nice and stage stuff for the outreachy developers, so please, work off
> of staging-testing for now.

Thank you Greg. I understand.
In that case, the three patches I sent yesterday were from the linux-next tree. 
Will you reject those or hold back?

Deepak.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h