From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: Getting the new RxRPC patches upstream Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:48:39 +0100 Message-ID: <13634.1177508919@redhat.com> References: <20070420.015838.83621529.davem@davemloft.net> <29341.1176975158@redhat.com> <2969.1176992303@redhat.com> <1101.1177056127@redhat.com> Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, oleg@tv-sign.ru, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55698 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030877AbXDYNtl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:49:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070420.015838.83621529.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > Is it possible for your changes to be purely networking > and not need those changes outside of the networking? See my latest patchset release. I've reduced the dependencies on non-networking changes to: (1) Oleg Nesterov's patch to change cancel_delayed_work() to use del_timer() rather than del_timer_sync() [patch 02/16]. This patch can be discarded without compilation failure at the expense of making AFS slightly less efficient. It also makes AF_RXRPC slightly less efficient, but only in the rmmod path. (2) A symbol export in the keyring stuff plus a proliferation of the types available in the struct key::type_data union [patch 03/16]. This does not conflict with any other patches that I know about. (3) A symbol export in the timer stuff [patch 04/16]. Everything else that remains after the reduction is confined to the AF_RXRPC or AFS code, save for a couple of networking patches in my patchset that you already have and I just need to make the thing compile. I'm not sure that I can make the AF_RXRPC patches totally independent of the AFS patches as the two sets need to interleave since the last AF_RXRPC patch deletes the old RxRPC code - which the old AFS code depends on. David