Re: [RFC] change the new message to provide for memory allocations

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On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 07:32:11PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 23.09.2020, 19:21 +0200 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:43:34PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > Control messages have to work in situtaions where you need to
> > > use GFP_NOIO. Hence wrappers for them that allocate memory must have
> > > an API that allows for that.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > 
> > So you unwind my mess and then fix it back up, nice, no objections from
> > me, thanks for doing this.
> > 
> > You sent this as "RFC", but it seems sane, want me to take this as-is or
> > do you want to wait to send a "real" set of patches?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is a fairly fundamental API. If we overlooked something the first
> time I would hate to see it happen twice. Are you in a hurry?

No, I just don't want to see more people build on this as-is :)



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