Re: [PATCH v10 1/5] configfs: Allow dynamic group creation

From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>,
	jlbec@evilplan.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, lars@metafoo.de, knaack.h@gmx.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, octavian.purdila@intel.com,
	pebolle@tiscali.nl, patrick.porlan@intel.com,
	adriana.reus@intel.com, constantin.musca@intel.com,
	marten@intuitiveaerial.com, cristina.opriceana@gmail.com,
	pmeerw@pmeerw.net, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/5] configfs: Allow dynamic group creation
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:27:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <565B357E.308@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01253AE7-7798-46ED-B3E4-A2540E577D47@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>

On 18/11/15 07:33, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17 November 2015 23:47:16 GMT+00:00, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:39:08 +0000 Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/11/15 06:43, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10 November 2015 21:12:37 GMT+00:00, Andrew Morton
>> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 07:51:26 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> is this simple addition something you could still send on to
>> Linus
>>>>>> for this merge window?  I would make my life easier to have it in
>>>>>> so I could start using it in patches for various trees in the
>> next
>>>>>> merge window.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's super late, but the configfs changes are obviously safe to
>>>>> existing code.
>>>>>
>>>>> What about the IIO changes?  Will someone be merging them for
>> 4.5-rc1,
>>>>> or something else?
>>>> Yes. I'll take the IIO bits and ultimately they'll go through Greg
>> KH for the 4.5 
>>>> merge window.
>>>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> Just taken a quick look at your mmotm list and see this ended up in
>> the
>>> mainline later group (fair enough given the timing!).
>>> As such shall we fall back to plan b) a special git branch pulled
>> into the trees
>>> of anyone who cares?
>>>
>>> I'll base such a tree on some obvious point in Linus' tree (either
>> 4.4 or 4.5-rc1)
>>> That way I can get the IIO stuff queued up asap and we can build on
>> that going
>>> forward during this cycle.
>>
>> I plan to send configfs-allow-dynamic-group-creation.patch to Linus
>> this week.  I'll retain 
>>
>> iio-core-introduce-iio-configfs-support.patch
>> iio-core-introduce-iio-software-triggers.patch
>> iio-core-introduce-iio-software-triggers-fix.patch
>> iio-trigger-introduce-iio-hrtimer-based-trigger.patch
>> iio-documentation-add-iio-configfs-documentation.patch
>>
>> with a view to dropping them once I see them turn up in linux-next.
> 
> That's great. Thanks.
I've now applied the rest of the series to my local togreg branch and pushed
out as testing for the autobuilders to play with them.

This branch will get rebased once Greg has picked up the previous PULL request.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> 
> Jonathan
> 