Re: kmod: add a sanity check on module loading

2017-01-03 Thread Jessica Yu
+++ Luis R. Rodriguez [08/12/16 11:49 -0800]: kmod has an optimization in place whereby if a some kernel code uses request_module() on a module already loaded we never bother userspace as the module already is loaded. This is not true for get_fs_type() though as it uses aliases. Additionally kmo

Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

2017-01-03 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:57:36 PM CET Paul Bolle wrote: > On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 23:25 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > As far as I'm concerned, we are totally fine as long as there exists a > > longterm supported kernel that has i4l in drivers/staging. > > Or in drivers/isdn, right? Right, I

Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Bolle
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 23:25 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > As far as I'm concerned, we are totally fine as long as there exists a > longterm supported kernel that has i4l in drivers/staging. Or in drivers/isdn, right? Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-d

Re: [PATCH linux 5/6] hwmon: occ: Add hwmon implementation for the P8 OCC

2017-01-03 Thread Rob Herring
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:56:07AM -0600, eajames@gmail.com wrote: > From: "Edward A. James" > > Add code to tie the hwmon sysfs code and the POWER8 OCC code together, as > well as probe the entire driver from the I2C bus. I2C is the communication > method between the BMC and the P8 OCC. > >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

2017-01-03 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:54:19 PM CET Paul Bolle wrote: > On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l > > isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging > > isdn: move i4l to staging > > > > I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are

Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Bolle
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that > I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not > come to a conclusion on: > > isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code Let me repeat that I'm fine with a

Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

2017-01-03 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24:36 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The icn, act2000 and pcbit drivers are all for very old hardware, > > and it is highly unlikely that anyone is actually still using them > > on modern kernels, i

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003

2017-01-03 Thread Mark Rutland
Hi, On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 05:43:32PM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote: > +config QCOM_FALKOR_E1003_RESERVED_ASID > + int > + default 1 > + depends on QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003 > + I don't think this needs to be configurable, so let's drop this into a header, e.g. drop: #define FAL

Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

2017-01-03 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The icn, act2000 and pcbit drivers are all for very old hardware, > and it is highly unlikely that anyone is actually still using them > on modern kernels, if at all. > > All three drivers apparently are for hardware that predates PC

Re: [PATCH 0/5] kernel-doc tweaks and cleanup of rST vs. non-rST backends

2017-01-03 Thread Jani Nikula
On Mon, 02 Jan 2017, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Hi, > > these patches are the result of my experiments with using kernel-doc > for QEMU's documentation. Patches 1 and 2 should be relatively > straightforward, as they are simple bugfixes. Patches 3 to 5, instead, > are making the docbook backend (and