Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] Add new APIs of devcoredump and fix bugs

[duoming@zju.edu.cn]

Hello,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:42:09 -0700 Brian Norris wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:21 AM Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn> wrote:
> >
> > The first patch adds new APIs to support migration of users
> > from old device coredump related APIs.
> >
> > The second patch fix sleep in atomic context bugs of mwifiex
> > caused by dev_coredumpv().
> >
> > Duoming Zhou (2):
> >   devcoredump: add new APIs to support migration of users from old
> >     device coredump related APIs
> >   mwifiex: fix sleep in atomic context bugs caused by dev_coredumpv
> 
> I would have expected a third patch in here, that actually converts
> existing users. Then in the following release cycle, clean up any new
> users of the old API that pop up in the meantime and drop the old API.
> 
> But I'll defer to the people who would actually be merging your code.
> Technically it could also work to simply provide the API this cycle,
> and convert everyone in the next.

Thank your for your time and reply.

If this patch set is merged into the linux-next tree, I will send the 
third patch which targets at linux-next tree and converts existing users 
at later timer of this release cycle. Because there are new users that 
may use the old APIs comes into linux-next tree during the remaining time
of this release cycle.

Best regards,
Duoming Zhou