Re: [PATCH RESEND] devcoredump: add scatterlist support

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Apr 14 2016 - 17:22:18 EST


On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:59:31AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Aviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add scatterlist support (dev_coredumpsg) to allow drivers to avoid
> vmalloc() like dev_coredumpm(), while also avoiding the module
> reference that the latter function requires.
>
> This internally uses dev_coredumpm() with function inside the
> devcoredump module, requiring removing the const
> (which touches the driver using it.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Aviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Greg, can you take this patch through the driver tree?

Sure, will do so.

thanks,

greg k-h