linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Modernize tasklet callback API

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Date:   Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:01:55 +0530
From:   Allen <allen.lkml@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Oscar Carter <oscar.carter@....com>,
        Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Modernize tasklet callback API

Kees,

> Was a Coccinelle script used for any of these conversions? I wonder if
> it'd be easier to do a single treewide patch for the more mechanical
> changes.

No, I should have written one. Will do it.

> And, actually, I still think the "prepare" patches should just be
> collapsed into the actual "covert" patches -- there are only a few.

Okay. It's been done and pushed to:
https://github.com/allenpais/tasklets/tree/V4

> After those, yeah, I think getting these sent to their respective
> maintainers is the next step.

 Please look at the above branch, if it looks fine, let me know
if I can add your ACK on the patches.
>
> Sure! I will add it to the tracker. Here's for the refactoring:
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/30
>
> and here's for the removal:
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/94
>
> if you can added details/examples of how they should be removed, that'd
> help other folks too, if they wanted to jump in. :)

Sure, Thank you.

- Allen