linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] consolidate driver_probe

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Message-ID: <20090126194334.GA16651@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:43:35 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one
	place

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:18:40PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:48:05 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sunday 25 January 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:13:46PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > > > From 11b47973023398ecdb933c442bab120906946762 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > > > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> > > > > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:04:53 -0800
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH] consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one place
> > > > > 
> > > > > there's a few places that currently loop over driver_probe_done(), and
> > > > > I'm about to add another one. This patch abstracts it into a helper
> > > > > to reduce duplication.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > > > 
> > > > Do you need me to take this through my tree?  Or is it going through the
> > > > acpi tree?
> > > 
> > > I've lost the track.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, it's a part of a two-patch series and I think both are in -mm.
> > > 
> > > Andrew, do you have them?
> > > 
> > 
> > I have these:
> > 
> > early-platform-drivers-v2.patch
> > drivers-consolidate-driver_probe_done-loops-into-one-place.patch
> > drivers-consolidate-driver_probe_done-loops-into-one-place-fix.patch
> > drivers-consolidate-driver_probe_done-loops-into-one-place-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> > resume-wait-for-device-probing-to-finish.patch
> > sysfs-use-standard-magich-for-sysfs.patch
> > 
> > queued up for sending into Greg for his "driver core" tree.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Greg, I assume you're going to get them from Andrew shortly.  2-4 definitely
> are .29 material (they fix a regression), the others two I don't know.

They are?  I didn't realize this, sorry.  What regression do they solve?

thanks,

greg k-h
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