From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756586AbcDGOk1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 10:40:27 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60793 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755472AbcDGOkZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 10:40:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:40:23 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aviya Erenfeld Subject: Re: [PATCH] devcoredump: add scatterlist support Message-ID: <20160407144023.GA10853@kroah.com> References: <1449831353-4711-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net> <1460026025.27154.11.camel@sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1460026025.27154.11.camel@sipsolutions.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 12:47:05PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? I don't have any context here at all, sorry, please resend the patch if you want me to review it. thanks, greg k-h