linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP

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Date:   Sun, 07 Nov 2021 15:30:33 +0100
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context

On Sunday, November 7, 2021 3:17:19 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> No, your change will go to the staging-linus branch, as it needs to go
> into 5.16-final and get sent to Linus much sooner than 5.17-rc1, which
> is where things are being queued up in the staging-testing branch at the
> moment.

Oh, I didn't even remotely guess that this kinds of patches usually go to the 
staging-linus branch so they get sent to Linus much sooner.

Thank you so much for your patience and for taking the time to explain the 
workflow to me.

Fabio

> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> greg k-h
>