[PATCH v2 3/6] staging: most: aim-cdev: make syscall write accept buffers of arbitrary size

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Sep 23 13:20:33 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 02:49:28PM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:08:51 +0200
> Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:37:07AM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> > > This patch allows to call the write() function for synchronous and
> > > isochronous channels with buffers of any size. The AIM simply waits
> > > for data to fill up the MOST buffer object according to the network
> > > interface controller specification for streaming channels, before
> > > it submits the buffer to the HDM.
> > > 
> > > The new behavior is backward compatible to the old applications,
> > > since all known applications needed to fill the buffer completely
> > > anyway.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm at microchip.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > v2: Since the previous patch of this series has beed dropped, this
> > > patch needed some adaptation work to match the source tree again.
> > 
> > Where are the 5 other patches in this series?
> 
> You dropped one and added four of them. This is the remaining one
> that couldn't be applied.
> 
> Why would I resend patches that have already been added?

You shouldn't, but why would you resend a patch and claim it is the
middle of a series of patches that are not sent at the same time?

Remember, I have the short-term memory of a squirrel, I have no idea
what was previously sent.  You wouldn't either if you dealt with as many
patches as I get...

thanks,

greg k-h


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