Re: [!GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.2

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Mon Jun 29 2015 - 11:48:18 EST


Am 29.06.2015 um 17:45 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Given the email threads about kdbus this week from various community
>>> members, I figured it would be good to let people know what was going on
>>> with things at the moment.
>>>
>>> We (David, Daniel, Djalal, and myself) do not need to rush anything and
>>> will be delaying the kdbus merge request for another cycle. There still
>>> seems to be some disagreement and we are confident that with more time
>>> to review this can be sorted out. We have asked distributions to start
>>> testing kdbus and have already gotten back valuable feedback from real
>>> world testing. We are incorporating that feedback, fixing bugs, and
>>> optimizing some internal details which will all be part of the pull
>>> request for the next release cycle.
>>
>> I've started digging into current kdbus to understand the changes you made and
>> have a question.
>> Where does all the development happen?
>>
>> For example your current tree contains the following commit:
>>
>> commit f3adf84302fb4fdb6698cf129b96546b47e27d33
>> Author: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu May 21 20:03:29 2015 +0200
>>
>> kdbus: skip mandatory items on negotiation
>>
>> The kdbus negotiation is used to figure out what items and flags an ioctl
>> supports. It is highly impractical to pass in mandatory items when all we
>> do is negotiation. Therefore, allow user-space to skip mandatory items if
>> KDBUS_FLAG_NEGOTIATE is passed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Where was this patch posted to?
>
> There was a pull request that happened on the linux-kernel mailing list
> with this patch in it, along with others.

I saw the pull request on LKML but not the patch. That's why I'm asking. :)

Thanks,
//richard
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