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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32.12] KVM: remove unused
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:56:41 -0700
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 05:52:20PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 07:43:55AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:14:14AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > 
> > > Function is now unused.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Was this patch also upstream?  Why does stable need it?
> > 
> It is upstream, but as part of another commit. My guess is that when
> patches were ported to stable this chunk was lost due to wrong merge
> resolving.

Ok, but as this patch doesn't do anything, why is it needed in -stable?

Also, this type of information (why it isn't upstream), is REQUIRED in
order to be accepted.  Please include it.

thanks,

greg k-h