linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging/goldfish: use 6-arg get_user

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Date:	Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:09:20 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jin Qian <jinqian@...roid.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/goldfish: use 6-arg get_user_pages()

On Friday 26 February 2016 13:28:12 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:59:43 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> > The API change is currently only in the mm/pkeys branch of the
> > tip tree, while the goldfish_pipe driver started using the
> > old API in the staging/next branch.
> >
> > Andrew could pick it up into linux-mm in the meantime, or I can
> > resend it at some later point if nobody else does the change
> > after 4.6-rc1.
> 
> This is one for Ingo.
> 
...
> 
> This removes the first two arguments, which are now the default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

As mentioned in my comment above, the patch can only get added
after the staging/next tree has also been merged, which I think
Ingo doesn't want to add to the tip tree.

	Arnd