linux-kernel - Re: [!GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.2

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2015 08:45:23 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: [!GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.2

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Given the email threads about kdbus this week from various community
> > members, I figured it would be good to let people know what was going on
> > with things at the moment.
> >
> > We (David, Daniel, Djalal, and myself) do not need to rush anything and
> > will be delaying the kdbus merge request for another cycle.  There still
> > seems to be some disagreement and we are confident that with more time
> > to review this can be sorted out.  We have asked distributions to start
> > testing kdbus and have already gotten back valuable feedback from real
> > world testing.  We are incorporating that feedback, fixing bugs, and
> > optimizing some internal details which will all be part of the pull
> > request for the next release cycle.
> 
> I've started digging into current kdbus to understand the changes you made and
> have a question.
> Where does all the development happen?
> 
> For example your current tree contains the following commit:
> 
> commit f3adf84302fb4fdb6698cf129b96546b47e27d33
> Author: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
> Date:   Thu May 21 20:03:29 2015 +0200
> 
>     kdbus: skip mandatory items on negotiation
> 
>     The kdbus negotiation is used to figure out what items and flags an ioctl
>     supports. It is highly impractical to pass in mandatory items when all we
>     do is negotiation. Therefore, allow user-space to skip mandatory items if
>     KDBUS_FLAG_NEGOTIATE is passed.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
>     Acked-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>
> 
> Where was this patch posted to?

There was a pull request that happened on the linux-kernel mailing list
with this patch in it, along with others.

thanks,

greg k-h
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