From: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide: replace GFP_ATOMIC by GFP_KERNEL
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:51:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <552691F5.9010205@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150409145035.GC16501@mwanda>
On 09/04/2015 16:50, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Sorry, my last email was bad.
>
> Splitting patches into logical parts is a bit tricky. Let me try
> explain better.
>
> Every patch should sort of make sense on its own. In the original code
> it's using GFP_ATOMIC but that's because the original API was bad and
> we had no choice. In the 1/1 patch we're using GFP_ATOMIC explicitly
> by choice and it's wrong. In patch 2/2 we fix this problem but we
> shouldn't introduce bad code even if we fix it in later patches.
ok thanks
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-09 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-09 11:46 [PATCH 0/2] pci to dma Quentin Lambert
2015-04-09 11:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] ide: remove deprecated use of pci api Quentin Lambert
2015-04-09 12:35 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-04-13 12:25 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-04-13 17:08 ` David Miller
2015-04-13 17:23 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-04-13 17:39 ` David Miller
2015-04-09 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] ide: replace GFP_ATOMIC by GFP_KERNEL Quentin Lambert
2015-04-09 12:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-04-09 14:33 ` Quentin Lambert
2015-04-09 14:40 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-04-09 14:50 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-04-09 14:51 ` Quentin Lambert [this message]
2015-04-09 14:53 ` Julia Lawall
2015-04-09 15:13 ` Dan Carpenter
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