linux-kernel - Re: [PULL] param sysfs oops (simple, leaky) fix, bool arrays fix

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:53:58 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
Cc:	"dedekind1@...il.com" <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PULL] param sysfs oops (simple, leaky) fix, bool arrays fix

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:20:11 am Phil Carmody wrote:
> Artem's passed the baton over to me to investigate, so I've reviewed
> and back-ported the last known version of your patchset. I'm happy to 
> report that the 100% reproducable leak that we were seeing before
> cannot be reproduced. As expected, given review of the code. I have 
> not been able to test the final driver-specific patches from your 
> patchset, but up to and including
> 
> [PATCH 12/18] param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters
> 
> they can all have a:
> 
> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
> 
> I'm quite interested to see these pushed into the mainline so that I
> can cherry-pick final versions for our internal tree, do you have any 
> schedule for that?

Thanks, Phil, I've added that.  Testing is always good!

The patches are sitting in linux-next now, ready for the next merge window
(ie. 2.6.36)

Cheers,
Rusty.
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