Re: [PATCH 2/2] backports: patches: update devcoredump patch

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On 5-6-2016 17:00, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 11:30 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Due to changes in include/linux/devcoredump.h the patch needs to
>> be updated.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> This patch is another shot at devcoredump patch. It just fixes
>> applying the patch. However, the resulting file now uses the
>> scatterlist function sg_pcopy_to_buffer() so that will need a
>> backport for kernels before v3.11.
>>
> I think, in order to make the new dev_coredumpsg() [or whatever it's
> called] function generally available, we have to also adjust the kernel
> version where the backported one gets used.

True. As there are no users right now we could opt to remove the new
function using devcoredump.patch. Or can we expect a driver using it soon.

Regards,
Arend
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