linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback

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Message-Id: <20091004145349.bc7b1857.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:53:49 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the
 callback

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:48:09 +0200 Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>
> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>

Please don't send unchangelogged patches.

The title tells us what the patch does, but how is the reader supposed
to work out why it does it?

> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c b/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c
> index ba0edad..556131f 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int fill_pkg(struct cn_msg *msg, struct dm_ulog_request *tfr)
>   * This is the connector callback that delivers data
>   * that was sent from userspace.
>   */
> -static void cn_ulog_callback(void *data)
> +static void cn_ulog_callback(void *data, struct netlink_skb_parms *nsp)
>  {
>  	struct cn_msg *msg = (struct cn_msg *)data;
>  	struct dm_ulog_request *tfr = (struct dm_ulog_request *)(msg + 1);

Your "connector/dm: Fixed a compilation warning" fix is already in
linux-next, so we throw a small and easily-fixed reject here.


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