Oliver, On Sun, 11 Aug 2019, Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > > I'm monitoring this patch from Thomas & Anna-Maria for nearly two years now - > and I also gave my Acked-by some time ago. > > As Tom is continuously applying th patch to the RT trees: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git/commit/net/can?h=v4.14-rt-rebase&id=49e2a1e5fef75738f536c0ed0fea9b6c1f3b46c1 > > Are there any plans to push this patch to mainline Linux or will this patch be > applied together with a huge patch set when RT completely gets into mainline? > > We can also use the common upstream process via linux-can mailing list. I was assuming this goes through the can/net process. So TBH, I did not pay attention as this was not using that old crufty hrtimer_tasklet() construct which we removed. But yes, the patch makes sense independent of RT anyway as it removes one level of indirection. Thanks, Thomas