On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 21:49 +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: > On 20/03/15 01:54, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 09:22 +0200, Alex Dowad wrote: > >> On 19/03/15 08:45, Michael Ellerman wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2015-13-03 at 18:14:46 UTC, Alex Dowad wrote: > >>>> The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new > >>>> kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity (and > >>>> consistency > >>>> with do_fork() and other arch-specific implementations of copy_thread()). > >>> > >>> I don't understand the bit about consistency with do_fork() ? > >>> > >> This series of patches includes one patch which renames the arg for > >> do_fork(), and others which rename the same arg for each arch-specific > >> implementation of copy_thread(). So if all of them are accepted and > >> merged, then all will be consistent. If only some of the patches are > >> accepted, I will rewrite the commit message so it doesn't mention > >> "consistency". > > Ah OK, I only got patch 23, so I missed the context of the whole series. > > > > I'll apply this one to the powerpc tree. > > Dear M. Ellerman, sorry for not replying promptly. If you would like to > apply this directly to the powerpc tree, that is fine, but can I edit > the commit message to remove the mention of 'consistency'? I doubt that > all 30+ archs will ever merge this change. Thanks, Alex I merged it last week:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=6eca8933d3ff17bff39d5f10a2a22366d8622fa6 And I edited the commit message more or less as you describe. And feel free to call me Michael or mpe :) cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
