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

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 08:20:58AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 02:00:11AM +0000, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hello:
> > 
> > This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
> > by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > 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?

I see now that it was only the ATM ones.

Sorry about the noise.
 
Johan