netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] eventfd: simplify eventfd

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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:02:25 +1100
From: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] eventfd: simplify eventfd_signal()

On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 13:48 +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Ever since the evenfd type was introduced back in 2007 in commit
> e1ad7468c77d ("signal/timer/event: eventfd core") the
> eventfd_signal()
> function only ever passed 1 as a value for @n. There's no point in
> keeping that additional argument.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com> # ocxl

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