From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752447AbbHSVhC (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:37:02 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44063 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750933AbbHSVg6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:36:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:36:56 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ingo Molnar , arnd@arndb.de, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, monstr@monstr.eu, jonas@southpole.se, cmetcalf@ezchip.com, gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn, x86@kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: provide more common DMA API functions V2 Message-Id: <20150819143656.3a38eb538ffac60386e1224a@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150819080814.GA18115@lst.de> References: <1439795216-32189-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <20150817142429.95a3965e0b35d0f35d3c4cfe@linux-foundation.org> <20150818053825.GA20771@lst.de> <20150817224552.43d7267d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20150818075107.GA31884@gmail.com> <20150819080814.GA18115@lst.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:08:14 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:51:07AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I.e. shouldn't this be: > > > > > I'll merge these 5 patches for 4.4. That means I'll release them into > > > linux-next after 4.2 is released. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Linus will be releasing 4.2 in 1-2 weeks and until then, linux-next is supposed > > > to contain only 4.3 material. Once 4.2 is released and the 4.3 merge window > > > opens, linux-next is open for 4.4 material. > > > > ? > > That would make a lot more sense. But also be said as I intended > these as the simple part of the dma work I'd like to get into 4.3. > > Andrew, if you think it's not 4.3 material I'd rather keep them in > my git tree for now so that I can stack additional patches I have > in progress on top. A non-git based tree like yours is unfortunately > very bad for patches that are dependencies for others. I think these will be OK for 4.3. It's all quiet so far and any problems will probably show up at compile time so they'll get fixed promptly.