Re: [PATCH 0/4] USB: replace page allocator calls with kmalloc()

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 02:00:11AM +0000, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
> by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:
> 
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:10:36 +0300 you wrote:
> > This is a (small) part of larger work of replacing page allocator calls
> > with kmalloc.
> > 
> > My initial intention a few month ago was to remove ugly casts [1], but then
> > willy pointed out that Linus objected to something like this [2] and it
> > looks like more than a decade old technical debt.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Here is the summary with links:
>   - [1/4] USB: usbfs: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
>     (no matching commit)
>   - [2/4] USB: cxacru: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/a3b4826138d4
>   - [3/4] USB: speedtch: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/534b18813974
>   - [4/4] USB: serial: wwan: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
>     (no matching commit)

Why were these USB patches applies to net-next?

Johan