From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCHSET] Managed device resources Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:32:47 -0800 Message-ID: <20070104223247.GA29274@suse.de> References: <1167146313307-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <20070104221916.GI28445@suse.de> <459D7F23.7010807@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:55531 "EHLO perch.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965099AbXADWdK (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:33:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459D7F23.7010807@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:26:43PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >Hm, but I guess without the follow-up patches for libata, it will not > >really get tested much. Jeff, if I accept this, what's your feelings of > >letting libata be the "test bed" for it? > > > It would be easiest for me to merge this through my > libata-dev.git#upstream tree. That will auto-propagate it to -mm, and > ensure that both base and libata bits are sent in one batch. > > Just shout if you see NAK-able bits... > > Work for you? That works for me. The only question I have is on the EXPORT_SYMBOL() stuff for the new driver/base/ functions. Tejun, traditionally the driver core has all exported symbols marked with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). So, any objection to marking the new ones (becides the "mirror" functions) in this manner? thanks, greg k-h