Re: [PATCH] staging/goldfish: use 6-arg get_user_pages()

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Feb 29 2016 - 05:10:06 EST


On Friday 26 February 2016 13:28:12 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:59:43 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The API change is currently only in the mm/pkeys branch of the
> > tip tree, while the goldfish_pipe driver started using the
> > old API in the staging/next branch.
> >
> > Andrew could pick it up into linux-mm in the meantime, or I can
> > resend it at some later point if nobody else does the change
> > after 4.6-rc1.
>
> This is one for Ingo.
>
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>
> This removes the first two arguments, which are now the default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As mentioned in my comment above, the patch can only get added
after the staging/next tree has also been merged, which I think
Ingo doesn't want to add to the tip tree.

Arnd