Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] kref improvements

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 15 2016 - 10:05:18 EST


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 08:42:45AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Thanks so much for doing these, at the very least, I want to take the
> > kref-abuse-fixes now as those users shouldn't be doing those foolish
> > things. Any objection for me taking some of them through my tree now?
>
> Very nice series indeed!
>
> We normally route atomics related patches through tip:locking/core (there's also
> tip:atomic/core), but this is a special case I think, given how broadly it
> interacts with driver code.
>
> So both would work I think: we could concentrate these and only these patches into
> tip:atomic/core into an append-only tree, or you can carry them in the driver tree
> - whichever variant you prefer!

I have no objection for them going through a tip:whataver tree/branch,
if you all want to do that, it makes it easier for me :)

I'm guessing another series will come out before they get merged there,
so I'll hold off on providing an Acked-by: until then.

thanks,

greg k-h