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Re: [PATCH 0/5] Modify ida_* users to use ida_simple_*

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On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:59:04AM -0700, Lee Duncan wrote:
> The ida index management routines are used in several
> driver modules to manage allocation and release of
> index values. Reviewing the way in which the
> ida routines were called, together with the small
> number of such clients, led to the belief that
> these users should all be able to share a simple
> built-in lock in the ida module by calling the
> ida_simple_*() functions instead of the non-simple
> versions. This means that ida does all the
> required locking so that clients don't have to
> manage that.

The whole series looks good to me.  Please feel free to add

Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

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tejun
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[PATCH 0/5] Modify ida_* users to use ida_simple_* Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2015-10-01 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 2/5] block: rsxx: core: simplify ida usage Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2015-10-01 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 4/5] block: mtip32xx: simplify ida usage Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2015-10-01 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 5/5] base: soc: siplify ida usage Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2015-10-01 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] SCSI: sd: simplify ida usage Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2015-10-01 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3/5] block: nvme-core: simplify ida usage Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2015-10-01 21:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] block: nvme-core: simplify ida usage Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> - 2015-10-08 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/5] Modify ida_* users to use ida_simple_* Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-05 19:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/5] Modify ida_* users to use ida_simple_* James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2015-10-05 20:00 +0200

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