Re: provide more common DMA API functions V2

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Aug 18 2015 - 01:45:46 EST


On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:38:25 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 02:24:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 110254 bytes saved, shrinking the kernel by a whopping 0.17%.
> > Thoughts?
>
> Sounds fine to me.

OK, I'll clean it up a bit, check that each uninlining actually makes
sense and then I'll see how it goes.

> >
> > I'll merge these 5 patches for 4.3. That means I'll release them into
> > linux-next after 4.2 is released.
>
> So you only add for-4.3 code to -next after 4.2 is odd? Isn't thast the
> wrong way around?

Linus will be releasing 4.2 in 1-2 weeks and until then, linux-next is
supposed to contain only 4.2 material. Once 4.2 is released,
linux-next is open for 4.3 material.
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