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

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Message-ID: <559168A7.80206@nod.at>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:47:51 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	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

Am 29.06.2015 um 17:45 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> 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.

I saw the pull request on LKML but not the patch. That's why I'm asking. :)

Thanks,
//richard
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