Re: [PATCH] devcoredump: add scatterlist support

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 06:47:13 EST


Hi Greg,

On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 11:55 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Aviya Erenfeld <aviya.erenfeld@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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?

Thanks,
johannes