From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964943AbbCPUoQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:44:16 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:37281 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932193AbbCPUoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:44:12 -0400 Message-ID: <55074093.40809@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:44:03 +0200 From: Alex Dowad User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Metcalf , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Christoph Lameter , Joe Perches , Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/32] tile: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg' References: <1426270496-26362-1-git-send-email-alexinbeijing@gmail.com> <1426270496-26362-18-git-send-email-alexinbeijing@gmail.com> <55073AD4.8030506@ezchip.com> In-Reply-To: <55073AD4.8030506@ezchip.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 16/03/15 22:19, Chris Metcalf wrote: > On 3/13/2015 2:14 PM, Alex Dowad wrote: >> The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new >> kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity (and >> consistency >> with do_fork() and other arch-specific implementations of >> copy_thread()). >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad >> --- >> arch/tile/kernel/process.c | 11 +++++++---- >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > Acked-by: Chris Metcalf > > If you would prefer me to take this into the tile tree, let me know, > and I am happy to do so. > Hi Chris, Thanks for your kind offer. I am a 100% genuine true-blue kernel newbie and have no idea whether a change like this should be merged individually by each arch maintainer, or all together at some point upstream (or is it downstream? I'm not sure about my streams). Do you have any suggestion? Thank you again! AD