From: "Seth Jennings" <sjennings@variantweb.net>
To: sjennings@variantweb.net
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj4747@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/crypto/nx: prevent oops on module exit
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:02:17 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5208e76ca917ccb0ca7c5fd5953cf21.squirrel@www.variantweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f05dbb0844d1f0431532a186b56034f3.squirrel@www.variantweb.net>
>> On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 09:43 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 15:30 -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
>>> > Check old_devdata->dev in nx-842 driver before accessing it, as
>>> > on systems without any nx-842 hardware, the ->dev will never be
>>> > set. Currently, the module will cause an oops during unload
>>> > since old_devdata->dev is null.
>>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> Patch looks reasonable. But I can't merge it, at least not without an
>>> ACK:
>>>
>>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/crypto/nx/
>>> Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:IBM Power 842
>>> com...)
>>> Marcelo Henrique Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:IBM
>>> Power
>>> in-Nest...)
>>> Fionnuala Gunter <fin@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:IBM Power
>>> in-Nest...)
>>> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> (maintainer:CRYPTO API)
>>> "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (maintainer:CRYPTO API)
>>> linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org (open list:IBM Power in-Nest...)
>>> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
>>>
>>>
>>> If any of the above is out of date please send me a patch for
>>> MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> I think Dan now owns that driver, Dan, please confirm.
>
> I guess I'm not on the maintainer list anymore, as I shouldn't be
> since I don't work at IBM anymore.
Wow, I messed that up. Repeating myself :-/ Sorry for the noise.
Seth
>
> So... yeah. I was the original co-author of driver so I acked it
> but I'm not the maintainer anymore. Which I shouldn't be, since
> I don't work at IBM anymore.
>
> Seth
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-17 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-16 19:30 [PATCH] drivers/crypto/nx: prevent oops on module exit Dan Streetman
2014-10-16 22:43 ` Michael Ellerman
2014-10-16 22:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-10-17 7:59 ` Seth Jennings
2014-10-17 8:02 ` Seth Jennings [this message]
2014-10-17 22:05 ` Dan Streetman
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