From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755368AbcKOPFO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:05:14 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37978 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753482AbcKOPFI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:05:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:05:19 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra , keescook@chromium.org, will.deacon@arm.com, elena.reshetova@intel.com, arnd@arndb.de, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, dave@progbits.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] kref improvements Message-ID: <20161115150519.GA21257@kroah.com> References: <20161114173946.501528675@infradead.org> <20161115072742.GA28248@kroah.com> <20161115074245.GB7016@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161115074245.GB7016@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 08:42:45AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Thanks so much for doing these, at the very least, I want to take the > > kref-abuse-fixes now as those users shouldn't be doing those foolish > > things. Any objection for me taking some of them through my tree now? > > Very nice series indeed! > > We normally route atomics related patches through tip:locking/core (there's also > tip:atomic/core), but this is a special case I think, given how broadly it > interacts with driver code. > > So both would work I think: we could concentrate these and only these patches into > tip:atomic/core into an append-only tree, or you can carry them in the driver tree > - whichever variant you prefer! I have no objection for them going through a tip:whataver tree/branch, if you all want to do that, it makes it easier for me :) I'm guessing another series will come out before they get merged there, so I'll hold off on providing an Acked-by: until then. thanks, greg k-h