Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] Add new APIs of devcoredump and fix bugs

[duoming]

Hello,

On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:59:33 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
 
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:42:09 -0700 Brian Norris wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:21 AM Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The first patch adds new APIs to support migration of users
> > > > from old device coredump related APIs.
> > > >
> > > > The second patch fix sleep in atomic context bugs of mwifiex
> > > > caused by dev_coredumpv().
> > > >
> > > > Duoming Zhou (2):
> > > >   devcoredump: add new APIs to support migration of users from old
> > > >     device coredump related APIs
> > > >   mwifiex: fix sleep in atomic context bugs caused by dev_coredumpv
> > > 
> > > I would have expected a third patch in here, that actually converts
> > > existing users. Then in the following release cycle, clean up any new
> > > users of the old API that pop up in the meantime and drop the old API.
> > > 
> > > But I'll defer to the people who would actually be merging your code.
> > > Technically it could also work to simply provide the API this cycle,
> > > and convert everyone in the next.
> > 
> > Thank your for your time and reply.
> > 
> > If this patch set is merged into the linux-next tree, I will send the 
> > third patch which targets at linux-next tree and converts existing users 
> > at later timer of this release cycle. Because there are new users that 
> > may use the old APIs comes into linux-next tree during the remaining time
> > of this release cycle.
> 
> No, that's not how this works, we can't add patches with new functions
> that no one uses.  And it's not how I asked for this api to be migrated
> over time properly.  I'll try to respond to your patch with more details
> in a week or so when I catch up on patch review...

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your reply.

Best regards,
Duoming Zhou