From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C85BC433B4 for ; Mon, 10 May 2021 06:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3BA60FF2 for ; Mon, 10 May 2021 06:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229863AbhEJGt7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2021 02:49:59 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:38776 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229608AbhEJGt7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2021 02:49:59 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3883A61409; Mon, 10 May 2021 06:48:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1620629335; bh=ASacdpOlQuH135AzXf7Jffw+O0OQ6HRYX3B7lI/zHqk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=nyAYJYWsaPA8vtKzZrhefsMQaL/p5Sh8rTnmEtJOGy3LOCEXauRmbSTMIkYXDzJpZ Fl2arSdhFGxHli8rPsZJtQUq6o8p55U1bssP/+Vxnde9pgUDvxAKZEa8CS49YpVG0w DAWD4k898oJagldSEQvXpyGgnq31kbAF+MYog8rY= Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 08:48:51 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Linus Walleij Cc: Jonathan Cameron , Linus Torvalds , Alexandru Ardelean , linux-iio , linux-kernel , Lars-Peter Clausen , Paul Cercueil , Nuno Sa Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: core: return ENODEV if ioctl is unknown Message-ID: References: <20210503144350.7496-1-aardelean@deviqon.com> <20210508161643.5990ec15@jic23-huawei> <20210509111925.52f3f4e3@jic23-huawei> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 05:29:10PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 12:18 PM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > On Sat, 8 May 2021 20:21:08 +0200 > > Linus Walleij wrote: > > > > Unless you really like to base your work on Gregs tree for > > > some reason or other, that is. > > > > Definitely appreciate Greg's help (and patience), but no > > particularly strong reason to waste his time dealing with my > > mess ups. Hopefully they'll reduce now IIO trees are going directly > > into linux-next though. > > I'd suggest to move to sending pulls to Torvalds directly > for IIO to cut the intermediary staging tree step, since > now the subsystem is pretty large and see a bunch of > frequent fixes that need an express path to Torvalds. > > Pushing through Greg per se isn't really the problem, > I think the problem is that IIO is going through the > staging tree which (I guess) isn't a high priority activity > and not expected to carry any serious critical fixes and > I guess this can cause lags. > > Maybe Greg has some other branch to take in IIO > fixes and for-next but I don't really see the point. I can take IIO changes in my char/misc tree like many other driver subsystems go, if the staging portions are not involved. Otherwise, I really don't see the problem with it as-is, what problems is this causing at the moment? thanks, greg k-h