From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resources: fix call to alignf() in allocate_resource()
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:03:02 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912210801260.21722@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091221084031.GB1648@isilmar.linta.de>
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
>
> At least the PCMCIA "align" function makes excessive use of the "size"
> parameter, so we'd still need this.
I noticed that it also uses 'res->end' (in the meaning "skip this one as
unacceptable").
> What about taking my patch for 2.6.33, and deferring the change to the
> calling convention to the 2.6.34 merge window? (I'll try to cook something
> up and get it into linux-next during the next few weeks).
Sounds like a plan,
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-20 9:50 Dominik Brodowski
2009-12-20 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-20 22:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-12-21 8:40 ` Dominik Brodowski
2009-12-21 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-01-01 16:38 ` [RFC] improve alignf() calling convention " Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-01 16:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] resource: align functions now return start of resource Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-01 22:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-03 16:30 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-15 18:23 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-01-01 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] resource: mark struct resource as const Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-14 7:28 ` why can not receive kernel mail anymore? goldenwang1979
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