From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCHSET] Managed device resources Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:07:03 +0900 Message-ID: <45A1C367.5040005@gmail.com> References: <1167146313307-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <20070104221916.GI28445@suse.de> <459D7F23.7010807@garzik.org> <20070104223247.GA29274@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.233]:9419 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030480AbXAHEHK (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:07:10 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h27so7903043wxd for ; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:07:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20070104223247.GA29274@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > 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. Great, I'll push it through Jeff. > 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? Okay, will do so. Thanks. -- tejun