From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
Vineeth Vijayan <vvijayan@mvista.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
"open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC..." <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [23/32] powerpc: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg'
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:54:34 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1426809274.2581.0.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550A794C.7020904@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 09:22 +0200, Alex Dowad wrote:
> On 19/03/15 08:45, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-13-03 at 18:14:46 UTC, Alex Dowad wrote:
> >> The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new
> >> kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity (and consistency
> >> with do_fork() and other arch-specific implementations of copy_thread()).
> >
> > I don't understand the bit about consistency with do_fork() ?
> This series of patches includes one patch which renames the arg for
> do_fork(), and others which rename the same arg for each arch-specific
> implementation of copy_thread(). So if all of them are accepted and
> merged, then all will be consistent. If only some of the patches are
> accepted, I will rewrite the commit message so it doesn't mention
> "consistency".
Ah OK, I only got patch 23, so I missed the context of the whole series.
I'll apply this one to the powerpc tree.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-19 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-13 18:14 [PATCH 11/32] frv: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg' Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 12/32] hexagon: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-16 16:25 ` rkuo
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 13/32] ia64: copy_thread(): rename 'user_stack_size' " Alex Dowad
2015-03-14 17:54 ` Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 14/32] m32r: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 15/32] m68k: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 16/32] metag: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-16 11:39 ` James Hogan
2015-03-16 13:13 ` [PATCHv2 " Alex Dowad
2015-03-16 14:31 ` James Hogan
2015-03-16 14:38 ` Alex Dowad
2015-03-16 14:38 ` [PATCHv3 " Alex Dowad
2015-03-16 14:52 ` James Hogan
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 17/32] microblaze: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 18/32] mips: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 19/32] mn10300: copy_thread(): rename 'ustk_size' " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 20/32] nios2: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 21/32] openrisc: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 22/32] parisc: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 23/32] powerpc: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-19 6:45 ` [23/32] " Michael Ellerman
2015-03-19 7:22 ` Alex Dowad
2015-03-19 23:54 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2015-03-24 19:49 ` Alex Dowad
2015-03-25 1:35 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 24/32] s390: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 25/32] score: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 26/32] sh: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 27/32] sparc: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 28/32] tile: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-16 20:19 ` Chris Metcalf
2015-03-16 20:44 ` Alex Dowad
2015-03-19 18:06 ` Chris Metcalf
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 29/32] um: " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 30/32] unicore32: copy_thread(): rename 'stk_sz' " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 31/32] x86: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' " Alex Dowad
2015-03-13 18:14 ` [PATCH 32/32] xtensa: " Alex Dowad
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