Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide: replace GFP_ATOMIC by GFP_KERNEL

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 04:53:48PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, my last email was bad.
> >
> > Splitting patches into logical parts is a bit tricky.  Let me try
> > explain better.
> >
> > Every patch should sort of make sense on its own.  In the original code
> > it's using GFP_ATOMIC but that's because the original API was bad and
> > we had no choice.  In the 1/1 patch we're using GFP_ATOMIC explicitly
> > by choice and it's wrong.  In patch 2/2 we fix this problem but we
> > shouldn't introduce bad code even if we fix it in later patches.
> 
> But if Quentin's analysis is wrong, then we have to undo the GFP_KERNEL
> choice, and with only one patch we end up back at the pci API?

We still only have to revert one patch either way.

regards,
dan carpenter

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