linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: do not use kfifo for storing hotkey scancodes

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:46:47 +0930
From:   Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...t42.net>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Micha?? K??pie?? <kernel@...pniu.pl>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: do not use kfifo for
 storing hotkey scancodes

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 05:07:18PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 02:25:46AM +0200, Rafael Wysocki wrote:
> > > Rafael, the above rationale appears sound to me. Do you have any concerns?
> > 
> > I actually do.
> > 
> > While this is the case today, making the driver code depend on it in a hard way
> > sort of makes it difficult to change in the future if need be.
> 
> OK, if we aren't guaranteed for this to run on CPU 0 in the future, and
> this will be annoying to debug if it does changes, let's skip the kfifo
> change.
> 
> I have removed this patch, and fixed up the merge conflicts of the
> remaining 6 patches here:
> 
> http://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git/shortlog/refs/heads/fujitsu
> 
> Michal / Jonathan, would you please review and let me know if this is what
> you would have done / approve the rebase?

The rebase looks reasonable to me.

Regards
  jonathan