From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965096AbXADWdL (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:33:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030187AbXADWdL (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:33:11 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:55531 "EHLO perch.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965099AbXADWdK (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:33:10 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 744 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:33:09 EST Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:32:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCHSET] Managed device resources Message-ID: <20070104223247.GA29274@suse.de> References: <1167146313307-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <20070104221916.GI28445@suse.de> <459D7F23.7010807@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459D7F23.7010807@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. 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? thanks, greg k-h