Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] notifier: add device-managed registration APIs

Hello Linus,

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 02:10:13PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 9:04 AM Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I suggested to add "Must be called in process context." to the kdoc for
> > devm_atomic_notifier_chain_register() as this is a relevant difference
> > to atomic_notifier_chain_register() and create an immutable branch for
> > it as a base for subsystems to apply their follow-up patches. I'd wait
> > till Wednesday for concerns and review tags to tickle in.
> 
> I think this is a good approach, but we are in the merge window,
> don't you wanna wait for v7.3-rc1 and create the immutable branch
> based on that?

My thought was to base on v7.2, and then consider the topic done for me.
 
> (But Bartosz will be the one pulling the immutable branch...)

It shouldn't make a difference for him if the branch's base is v7.2 or
v7.3-rc1, still more given that there are no changes staged in next to
the affected files (`git log v7.2..next/master --
include/linux/notifier.h kernel/notifier.c`).

Best regards
Uwe

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