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

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Message-ID: <CAF1ivSbvrUUdMp60FAU6LURyCA9pkfaEzia+XB+1nfkDDW1WdQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:48:55 -0700
From:	Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	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, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:46 AM, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> wrote:
> 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.

Are you OK to merge it?

Thanks.