Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core changes for 6.16-rc1

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 06:16:21PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 2025-05-28 17:56:52+0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > The following changes since commit 82f2b0b97b36ee3fcddf0f0780a9a0825d52fec3:
> > 
> >   Linux 6.15-rc6 (2025-05-11 14:54:11 -0700)
> > 
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core.git tags/driver-core-6.16-rc1
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to 071d8e4c2a3b0999a9b822e2eb8854784a350f8a:
> > 
> >   kernfs: Relax constraint in draining guard (2025-05-21 14:23:13 +0200)
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Driver core changes for 6.16-rc1
> > 
> > Here are the driver core / kernfs changes for 6.16-rc1.
> > 
> > Not a huge number of changes this development cycle, here's the summary
> > of what is included in here:
> >   - kernfs locking tweaks, pushing some global locks down into a per-fs
> >     image lock
> >   - rust driver core and pci device bindings added for new features.
> 
> >   - sysfs const work for bin_attributes.  This churn should now be
> >     completed for those types of attributes
> 
> This is missing the switch away and removal of the transitional
> struct members, "read_new", "write_new" and "bin_attrs_new".
> These are the actually churny changes.
> 
> I have a branch with those, based on current linux-next/master, at
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thomas.weissschuh/linux.git b4/sysfs-const-bin_attr-final
> 
> (Has not yet passed 0day, but earlier versions this week did)
> 
> Do you want me to resubmit it to you? Now or shortly before the end of
> the merge window?

Ah, yes, those are still in my "to apply after -rc1 is out" queue, sorry
about that.  And yes, I'll be glad to take updated versions as things
have changed.

thanks,

greg k-h