linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core changes for 6.16-rc1

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Message-ID: <39eaf3d6-3c69-4e06-a61e-cccc7aad578d@t-8ch.de>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 13:40:13 +0200
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@...ch.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core changes for 6.16-rc1

(trimmed the CC-list)

Hi Greg,

On 2025-05-28 18:29:20+0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 06:16:21PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > On 2025-05-28 17:56:52+0200, Greg KH wrote:

<snip>

> > > Here are the driver core / kernfs changes for 6.16-rc1.
> > > 
> > > Not a huge number of changes this development cycle, here's the summary
> > > of what is included in here:
> > >   - kernfs locking tweaks, pushing some global locks down into a per-fs
> > >     image lock
> > >   - rust driver core and pci device bindings added for new features.
> > 
> > >   - sysfs const work for bin_attributes.  This churn should now be
> > >     completed for those types of attributes
> > 
> > This is missing the switch away and removal of the transitional
> > struct members, "read_new", "write_new" and "bin_attrs_new".
> > These are the actually churny changes.

<snip>

> > Do you want me to resubmit it to you? Now or shortly before the end of
> > the merge window?
> 
> Ah, yes, those are still in my "to apply after -rc1 is out" queue, sorry
> about that.  And yes, I'll be glad to take updated versions as things
> have changed.

In case you don't see patches submitted during the merge window,
here is the updated series:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250530-sysfs-const-bin_attr-final-v3-0-724bfcf05b99@weissschuh.net/

Based on linux-next to make sure that all changes that could go into the
merge window are accounted for.


Thomas