netdev - Re: Getting the new RxRPC patches upstream

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:38:05 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, oleg@...sign.ru, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting the new RxRPC patches upstream

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:41:46 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> There are only two non-net patches that AF_RXRPC depends on:
> 
>  (1) The key facility changes.  That's all my code anyway, and shouldn't be a
>      problem to merge unless someone else has put some changes in there that I
>      don't know about.
> 
>  (2) try_to_cancel_delayed_work().  I suppose I could use
>      cancel_delayed_work() instead, but that's less efficient as it waits for
>      the timer completion function to finish.

There are significant workqueue changes in -mm and I plan to send them
in for 2.6.22.  I doubt if there's anything in there which directly
affects cancel_delayed_work(), but making changes of this nature against
2.6.21 might lead to grief.
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