linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling and duplicated code

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1905032115490.10635@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:   Fri, 3 May 2019 21:16:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Tobin C . Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling and
 duplicated code

On Fri, 3 May 2019, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Tobin's patch[1] uncovered that the livepatching code handles kobjects
> a too complicated way.
> 
> The first patch removes the unnecessary custom kobject state handling.
> 
> The second patch is an optional code deduplication. I did something
> similar already when introducing the atomic replace. But it was
> not considered worth it. There are more duplicated things now...
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430001534.26246-1-tobin@kernel.org
> 
> 
> Petr Mladek (2):
>   livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling
>   livepatch: Remove duplicated code for early initialization

I've applied this to for-5.2/core. Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs