From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Ira W. Snyder" <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: new gerneric kfifo API
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:52:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100804145205.524c1c03.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100804201724.GA32100@suse.de>
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:17:24 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:09:11PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 12:46 -0700 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there is play plan to
> > > > merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no
> > > > reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer.
> > >
> > > These have been in the -mm tree for a few major kernel releases now,
> > > right? And they are API safe, and only change the internals, right?
> > >
> > > If so, I see no objection to merging them now, especially as you will be
> > > around to fix up any problems that people have, right? :)
> > >
> >
> > right!
>
> Great. As Andrew doesn't have the time to send them on, want me to? If
> so, care to point me at them in his tree, or resend them to me?
>
One does a little more than "send things on"...
I have a little pile of kfifo changes queud for 2.6.36. The "generic
kfifo" patches are a large rotorooting of the whole facility, based on
that work (I hope).
There's also the abandoned
kfifo-replace-the-old-non-generic-api-kfifo-fix-scatterlist-usage.patch
which never got resolved with the originator.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-04 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <201005132135.o4DLZ9WI021613@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-04 7:10 ` new gerneric kfifo API Stefani Seibold
2010-08-04 7:16 ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-04 19:46 ` Greg KH
2010-08-04 20:09 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-08-04 20:17 ` Greg KH
2010-08-04 21:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-08-04 22:02 ` stefani
2010-08-04 23:01 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-08-05 9:04 ` Andi Kleen
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