From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751986AbcHGRFL (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2016 13:05:11 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:26040 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751712AbcHGRFK (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2016 13:05:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] softirq: fix tasklet_kill() usage and users To: Greg Kroah-Hartman References: <1470111222-26919-1-git-send-email-ssantosh@kernel.org> <8888f797-27a4-a469-4566-740400686627@oracle.com> <20160807065251.GA13212@kroah.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Santosh Shilimkar , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Tadeusz Struk , Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , Paul Bolle , Nicolas Ferre From: "santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com" Organization: Oracle Corporation Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 10:03:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160807065251.GA13212@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/6/16 11:52 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 11:07:14AM -0700, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> ping !! > > ping on a "RFC" after only 5 days in the middle of the merge window? > That's bold... > > Personally, I rarely respond to RFC patches as obviously the submitter > doesn't think they solve the issue at hand :) > I see. The patch does solve the problem in this particular case though and also fixes few drivers miss-use of the api IMHO. I marked it RFC to get comments on approach but probably should have just sent as a patch. I will keep that in mind for future. Regards, Santosh