netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO in xsk_map

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Message-ID: <20190820094444.GA3964@kadam>
Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:44:44 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>
Cc:     Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        "Karlsson, Magnus" <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO in xsk_map_inc()

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:25:29AM +0200, Björn Töpel wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 10:59, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:28:26AM +0200, Björn Töpel wrote:
> > > For future patches: Prefix AF_XDP socket work with "xsk:" and use "PATCH
> > > bpf-next" to let the developers know what tree you're aiming for.
> >
> > There are over 300 trees in linux-next.  It impossible to try remember
> > everyone's trees.  No one else has this requirement.
> >
> 
> Net/bpf are different, and I wanted to point that out to lessen the
> burden for the maintainers. It's documented in:
> 
> Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst.
> Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst

Ah...  I hadn't realized that BPF patches were confusing to Dave.

I actually do keep track of net and net-next.  I do quite a bit of extra
stuff for netdev patches.  So what about if we used [PATCH] for bpf and
[PATCH net] and [PATCH net-next] for networking?

I will do that.

regards,
dan carpenter