linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 00/14] module: core code clean up

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Date:   Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:21:46 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>
Cc:     christophe.leroy@...roup.eu, pmladek@...e.com, cl@...ux.com,
        mbenes@...e.cz, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jeyu@...nel.org,
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        jason.wessel@...driver.com, daniel.thompson@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/14] module: core code clean up

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:43:08PM +0000, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> As per your suggestion [1], this is an attempt to refactor and split
> optional code out of core module support code into separate components.
> This version is based on Linus' commit 7993e65fdd0f ("Merge tag
> 'mtd/fixes-for-5.17-rc5' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux").
> 
> Petr,
> 
> I decided to use preempt_disable() instead to remain consistent with the
> rest of the file. Unfortunately, I did not make time to boot test etc.

Aaron, thanks so much for doing this!

Since no boot tests are performed yet, I just pushed this to modules-testing
for now, after we get some boot test results I'll push to modules-next.

We should run kmod tests as well.

  Luis