From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org,
gregkh@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] patch sparc64-make-prom-entry-spinlock-nmi-safe.patch added to 2.6.32-stable tree
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:05:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330200522.GD1693@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB1E98E.9050702@canonical.com>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:07:42PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> This converted the raw_spinlock usage which is used in the upstream patch but
> not available in 2.6.32 to normal spinlock usage. Should it get annotated to
> document that?
why, you obviously figured that out :)
It's not the normal thing to do for backports otherwise we would be here
all day long...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-30 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-03-30 12:07 ` patch sparc64-make-prom-entry-spinlock-nmi-safe.patch added to 2.6.32-stable tree Stefan Bader
2010-03-30 20:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-03-31 7:18 ` [stable] " Stefan Bader
2010-03-30 20:07 ` David Miller
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