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Re: [PATCH] devcoredump: add scatterlist support

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On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 12:47:05PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 11:55 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Aviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@intel.com>
> > 
> > Add scatterlist support (dev_coredumpsg) to allow drivers to avoid
> > vmalloc() like dev_coredumpm(), while also avoiding the module
> > reference that the latter function requires.
> > 
> > This internally uses dev_coredumpm() with function inside the
> > devcoredump module, requiring removing the const
> > (which touches the driver using it.)
> 
> It's been a while, but I realized this patch went nowhere.
> 
> I know I'm listed as the maintainer, but I really wanted you as the
> drivers/base/ maintainer to also take a look, rather than just sending
> it to Linus. Did you perhaps expect me to do the latter?

I don't have any context here at all, sorry, please resend the patch if
you want me to review it.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: [PATCH] devcoredump: add scatterlist support Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-04-07 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] devcoredump: add scatterlist support Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-04-07 16:50 +0200

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