From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part IV) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 13:25:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20111005202558.GA13436@suse.de> References: <1317810511.21903.204.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <20111005191717.GC30378@suse.de> <20111005.161341.840183744862645286.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42323 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756217Ab1JEUrQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:47:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111005.161341.840183744862645286.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:13:41PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Greg KH > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:17:17 -0700 > > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:28:30AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> The following series converts a forth batch of network drivers to the > >> SKB pages fragment API introduced in 131ea6675c76. > >> > >> There are two drivers/staging patches in here. I'm not sure who normally > >> takes these, I'm sure you guys know though. > > > > I take them. As I don't have commit 131ea6675c76 in my tree > > (staging-next), I'd have to wait until that patch gets merged into > > Linus's tree, which should be after 3.2-rc1, right? Mind if I hold off > > in taking them until then? > > We're trying to change all the driver accesses so we can change > the datastructures underneath this stuff. > > If we have to wait until after 3.2-rc1, then we won't be able to > make the datastructure change this merge window. Then feel free to take these changes through your tree, I have no objection to that. I'll handle any merge issues on my side that might happen, but given the size of these patches (i.e. almost trivial), I doubt that would happen. So feel free to add my: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman to these patches and take them through the networking tree. thanks, greg k-h