Re: provide more common DMA API functions V2

Ingo Molnar
2015-08-18T07:51:07Z

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:38:25 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 02:24:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 110254 bytes saved, shrinking the kernel by a whopping 0.17%.
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > Sounds fine to me.
>
> OK, I'll clean it up a bit, check that each uninlining actually makes
> sense and then I'll see how it goes.
>
> > >
> > > I'll merge these 5 patches for 4.3. That means I'll release them into
> > > linux-next after 4.2 is released.
> >
> > So you only add for-4.3 code to -next after 4.2 is odd? Isn't thast the
> > wrong way around?
>
> Linus will be releasing 4.2 in 1-2 weeks and until then, linux-next is
> supposed to contain only 4.2 material. Once 4.2 is released,
> linux-next is open for 4.3 material.

Isn't that off by one?

I.e. shouldn't this be:

> I'll merge these 5 patches for 4.4. That means I'll release them into
> linux-next after 4.2 is released.
>
> [...]
>
> Linus will be releasing 4.2 in 1-2 weeks and until then, linux-next is supposed
> to contain only 4.3 material. Once 4.2 is released and the 4.3 merge window
> opens, linux-next is open for 4.4 material.

?

Thanks,

Ingo