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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
	kent.overstreet@gmail.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, davem <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Oleg Babin <obabin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drop flex_arrays
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:45:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213164533.GQ6830@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181213155149.GA4127@hmswarspite.think-freely.org>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:51:49AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 06:41:11AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:30:47PM +0900, Xin Long wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:57 AM Kent Overstreet
> > > <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > All existing users have been converted to generic radix trees
> > > NAK, SCTP is still using flex_arrays,
> > > # grep flex_array net/sctp/*
> > > 
> > > This patch will break the build.
> > 
> > sctp added that user after this patch was sent.  Please stop adding
> > flexarray users!
> > 
> > This particular user should probably have just used kvmalloc.
> > 
> 
> No, I don't think thats right.
> 
> This appears to have been sent on September 7th.  Commit
> 0d493b4d0be352b5e361e4fa0bc3efe952d8b10e, which added the use of flex_arrays to
> sctp, seems to have been merged on August 10th, a month prior.

Are you seriously suggesting anybody sending cleanups needs to be
monitoring every single email list to see if anybody has added a new user?
Removing the flexarray has been advertised since May.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/22/1142

> regardless, however, sctp has a current in-tree use of flex_arrays, and merging
> this patch will break the build without a respin.

Great.  I await your patch to replace the flexarray usage.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-07 16:56 [PATCH 0/6] flex_arrays -> genradix; prep work for bcachefs Kent Overstreet
2018-09-07 16:56 ` [PATCH 1/6] openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc Kent Overstreet
2018-09-07 17:19   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-09-07 16:56 ` [PATCH 2/6] md: " Kent Overstreet
2018-09-07 17:49   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-09-07 18:16     ` Kent Overstreet
2018-09-07 16:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] selinux: " Kent Overstreet
2018-09-07 17:08   ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-09-07 17:50     ` Kent Overstreet
2018-09-13  2:27       ` Paul Moore
2018-09-07 16:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] Generic radix trees Kent Overstreet
2018-09-10 23:18   ` [PATCH] Generic radix tree: add kernel-doc chapter Randy Dunlap
2018-09-07 16:56 ` [PATCH 5/6] proc: commit to genradix Kent Overstreet
2018-09-07 16:56 ` [PATCH 6/6] Drop flex_arrays Kent Overstreet
2018-09-07 18:49   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-12-13 12:30   ` Xin Long
2018-12-13 14:41     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-13 15:51       ` Neil Horman
2018-12-13 16:45         ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-12-13 18:09           ` Neil Horman
2018-12-17 12:50             ` Kent Overstreet
2018-12-18 12:19               ` Neil Horman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-23  1:18 [PATCH 1/6] Generic radix trees Kent Overstreet
2018-05-23  1:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] Drop flex_arrays Kent Overstreet
2018-05-23 13:39   ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-05-23 17:24   ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-23 22:06     ` Kent Overstreet

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