Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf,cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and cpulist_scnprintf to takepointers.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 03:29:05 EST



* Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (Linux-next again, but simple conversion...)
>
> Most cpumask functions started with cpus_: these have been replaced by
> cpumask_ ones which take struct cpumask pointers as expected.
>
> These four functions don't have good replacement names; fortunately
> they're rarely used, so we just change them over.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: paulus@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: mingo@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx

Sigh, you've lost the acked-by/signoff lines and the impact-lines as
well.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

find below how the commit looked like at a certain point. Yes, i know
the APIs changed somewhat.

Ingo

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