Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2017 15:48:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RDMA/nes: Convert timers to use timer_setup() |
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On 10/4/2017 8:45 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to > > all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer() > > to pass the timer pointer explicitly. A pointer from nesadapter back to > > nesdev was added. > > > > Cc: Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@intel.com> > > Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> > > Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> > > Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com> > > Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > > --- > > This requires commit 686fef928bba ("timer: Prepare to change timer > > callback argument type") in v4.14-rc3, but should be otherwise > > stand-alone. > > What is your intention with this, and the other RDMA related, patches? > Is it your intention that I should pick these up or is someone else > supposed to (you sent it to linux-kernel and only Cc:ed linux-rdma)? > Also, are you intending this to go into -rc? If so, why is it dependent > on a patch that didn't land until -rc3?
That's 4.15 material and should preferrably be picked up by the relevant maintainers. The 4.14-rc3 reference is there just in case a maintainer tree is based on pre 4.14-rc3, so applying the patch would break the build.
Thanks,
tglx
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