linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mempool based chained scatterlist alloc/free api

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Message-ID: <1458834360.2544.12.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:46:00 -0400
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mempool based chained scatterlist alloc/free api

On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 08:09 -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 03:03:11PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> > > From: Ming Lin <ming.l@....samsung.com>
> > > 
> > > The fist 4 patches make the SG related
> > > definitions/structs/functions
> > > in SCSI code generic and the last patch move it to lib/sg_pool.c.
> > > 
> > > I still keep the macro "SG_MEMPOOL_NR" since it's used in 3
> > > places.
> > 
> > I don't ѕee the point, but I'm not going to block the series over
> > it either.
> > 
> > The new series looks really nice to me!
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> This series touches several sub-systems.
> What's the best way to merge it?

It has a minor intrusion into 

 drivers/ata/pata_icside.c           |   2 +-
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c |   4 +-
 drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c      |   2 +-

Apart from that, it's all SCSI, so the SCSI tree would seem to be the
best one.

James