From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
arnd@arndb.de, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
will.deacon@arm.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp,
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gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn, x86@kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: provide more common DMA API functions V2
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:36:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150819143656.3a38eb538ffac60386e1224a@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150819080814.GA18115@lst.de>
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:08:14 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:51:07AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I.e. shouldn't this be:
> >
> > > I'll merge these 5 patches for 4.4. That means I'll release them into
> > > linux-next after 4.2 is released.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Linus will be releasing 4.2 in 1-2 weeks and until then, linux-next is supposed
> > > to contain only 4.3 material. Once 4.2 is released and the 4.3 merge window
> > > opens, linux-next is open for 4.4 material.
> >
> > ?
>
> That would make a lot more sense. But also be said as I intended
> these as the simple part of the dma work I'd like to get into 4.3.
>
> Andrew, if you think it's not 4.3 material I'd rather keep them in
> my git tree for now so that I can stack additional patches I have
> in progress on top. A non-git based tree like yours is unfortunately
> very bad for patches that are dependencies for others.
I think these will be OK for 4.3. It's all quiet so far and any
problems will probably show up at compile time so they'll get fixed
promptly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-19 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-17 7:06 provide more common DMA API functions V2 Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-17 7:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc, free}_{attrs, coherent} Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-17 7:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-17 7:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] dma-mapping: cosolidate dma_mapping_error Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-27 13:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-08-17 7:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] dma-mapping: consolidate dma_supported Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-17 7:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-17 21:24 ` provide more common DMA API functions V2 Andrew Morton
2015-08-18 5:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-18 5:45 ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-18 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-18 6:07 ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-08-18 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-19 8:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-19 21:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-08-19 23:52 ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-08-20 1:09 ` Michael Ellerman
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