[Devel] Re: [PATCH v6 06/10] glge driver: rename internal SEM_SET macro to SEM_INIT

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at canonical.com
Tue Oct 23 10:26:00 PDT 2012


Quoting Jitendra Kalsaria (jitendra.kalsaria at qlogic.com):
> 
> 
> >From: Serge Hallyn [mailto:serge.hallyn at canonical.com] 
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:33 AM
> >To: Stanislav Kinsbursky
> >Cc: akpm at linux-foundation.org; catalin.marinas at arm.com; will.deacon at arm.com; dhowells at redhat.com; manfred at colorfullife.com; hughd at google.com; jmorris at namei.org; mtk.manpages at gmail.com; kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com; >paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com; sds at tycho.nsa.gov; devel at openvz.org; a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl; cmetcalf at tilera.com; Dept-Eng Linux Driver; Ron Mercer; viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk; eparis at parisplace.org; tglx at linutronix.de; Jitendra Kalsaria; >netdev; linux-kernel; linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org; ebiederm at xmission.com; casey at schaufler-ca.com
> >Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/10] glge driver: rename internal SEM_SET macro to SEM_INIT
> >
> >Quoting Stanislav Kinsbursky (skinsbursky at parallels.com):
> >> The reason for shit patch is that SET_SET is desired to be a part of new part
> >> of API of IPC sys_semctl() system call.
> >> The name itself for IPC is quite natural, because all linux-specific commands
> >> names for IPC system calls are originally created by replacing "IPC_" part by
> >> "SEM_"("MSG_", "SHM_") part.
> >> So, I'm hoping, that this change doesn't really matters for "QLogic qlge NIC
> >
> >Can't speak for the driver maintainer, but it does look sane.
> >
> >Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>
> 
> I don't get it why you are Acking on old series (V6) when he has already submitted newer V7 series.

Hm, this is the newest one I've got sitting here queued.  I'll look at
another mbox.  Thanks for the friendly heads up.




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