netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 0/13] enable SKB paged fragment lifetime visibility

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Message-ID: <1311344296.12772.80.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:18:16 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 0/13] enable SKB paged fragment lifetime
 visibility

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:13 +0100, David Miller wrote:
> Well, Ian, because you put all of these "struct page *" MM layer
> const changes in here I can't just apply this series once you
> get it ready enough from a networking perspective.
> 
> Why not do the const crap later, so it can be done independently
> of these changes and not be a dependency upon them?

Initially it was to help me find locations which needed consideration
(since it caused build failures) but I can flip it round now, sure.

> I know you want to pass const page structs down as far as possible,
> but that can wait for later, make the networking bits work on
> non-const pointers for now.

Will do.

Ian.

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