From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932289Ab2CSXeO (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:34:14 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:50056 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755888Ab2CSXeN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:34:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:34:09 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Seth Jennings Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Dan Magenheimer , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Robert Jennings , Nitin Gupta Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: add user-definable alloc/free funcs Message-ID: <20120319233409.GA16124@kroah.com> References: <1331931888-14175-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120316213227.GB24556@kroah.com> <4F678100.1000707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F678100.1000707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote: > > I'm sorry, I know this isn't fair for your specific patch, but we have > > to stop this sometime, and as this patch adds code isn't even used by > > anyone, its a good of a time as any. > > So, this the my first "promotion from staging" rodeo. I would love to > see this code mainlined ASAP. How would I/we go about doing that? What subsystem should this code live in? The -mm code, I'm guessing, right? If so, submit it to the linux-mm mailing list for inclusion, you can point them at what is in drivers/staging right now, or probably it's easier if you just make a new patch that adds the code that is in drivers/staging/ to the correct location in the kernel. That way it's easier to review and change. When it finally gets accepted, we can then delete the drivers/staging code. hope this helps, greg k-h