From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755528AbcDGKrM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 06:47:12 -0400 Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:44525 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751426AbcDGKrK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 06:47:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1460026025.27154.11.camel@sipsolutions.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] devcoredump: add scatterlist support From: Johannes Berg To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aviya Erenfeld Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:47:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1449831353-4711-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> References: <1449831353-4711-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.1-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 11:55 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > From: Aviya Erenfeld > > Add scatterlist support (dev_coredumpsg) to allow drivers to avoid > vmalloc() like dev_coredumpm(), while also avoiding the module > reference that the latter function requires. > > This internally uses dev_coredumpm() with function inside the > devcoredump module, requiring removing the const > (which touches the driver using it.) It's been a while, but I realized this patch went nowhere. I know I'm listed as the maintainer, but I really wanted you as the drivers/base/ maintainer to also take a look, rather than just sending it to Linus. Did you perhaps expect me to do the latter? Thanks, johannes