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Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue with standard Linux lists

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On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:43:55PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote:
>  - The message queue is replaced with standard Linux linked list
>  - kmem_cache is used for list members

Why?

>  - A check for return value of receive method is added
>  - GFP_ATOMIC is changed to GFP_KERNEL

Why?  Are you sure that is safe?

>  - A few other related minor changes

Be specific please.

thanks,

greg k-h
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[PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue with standard Linux lists Chandra S Gorentla <csgorentla@gmail.com> - 2015-09-28 20:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue  with standard Linux lists Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-09-29 03:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue  with standard Linux lists Chandra Gorentla <csgorentla@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 14:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue  with standard Linux lists Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-09-29 04:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue  with standard Linux lists Chandra Gorentla <csgorentla@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 14:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue  with standard Linux lists Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-09-30 15:30 +0200

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