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: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 18:32:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <565F3944.50009@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565B357E.308@kernel.org>

On 29/11/15 17:27, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 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.
Now rebased - I also made a tiny change to take the iio_configfs_subsys
structure static in response to a sparse warning - shout if I've done
anything silly.


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
> 
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