Re: [PATCH 3/9] staging: unisys: visorinput: use kref ref-counting for device data struct

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:21:14PM +0000, Sell, Timothy C wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:12 PM
> > To: Sell, Timothy C
> > Cc: Romer, Benjamin M; driverdev-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; *S-Par-
> > Maintainer
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] staging: unisys: visorinput: use kref ref-counting
> > for device data struct
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:07:24PM +0000, Sell, Timothy C wrote:
> > > What should I do with this patchset?
> > 
> > What patchset?
> 
> "[PATCH 0/9] staging: unisys: visorinput fixes and enhancements", 
> submitted by Ben Romer Fri 10/16/2015 @ 10:07 AM.

I don't see this in my "to-review" queue at all, sorry.  If this was
some old patchset, you are going to have to resend as my memory is
totally gone (remember, I get 1000 emails a day, and my to-review mbox
is right now 1637 emails to process once the merge window opens up...)

> > > Some history: it was fixing this one little line in
> > > drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig that triggered this patchset:
> > >
> > > 	depends on UNISYSSPAR && UNISYS_VISORBUS && FB
> > >
> > > Adding "INPUT" was easy, but it turned out that removing "FB" was hard.
> > ;-(
> > > Removing FB is at the crux of this patchset.
> > >
> > > Rarely a week passes where I don't get a complaint from the
> > > community about the fact that I need to add "INPUT" to that line to fix
> > > errors when building with randconfig.
> > 
> > Then submit a patch that fixes that! :)
> 
> That's what I did, originally.  But you told me I had to get rid of the FB
> requirement.  So  that's why we submitted 
> "[PATCH 0/9] staging: unisys: visorinput fixes and enhancements", which
> includes all the stuff we needed to get rid of FB as well as the last
> patch in the series, which adds INPUT.
> Ben Romer actually submitted the patchset Fri 10/16/2015 @ 10:07 AM.

It's not in my queue, so I have no idea what happened to it.  Did I
apply it?  Reject it?  something else?

thanks,

greg k-h
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