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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/3] um: Add support for 64 bit atomic operations
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:34:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110420143408.GA22436@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104201629.24099.richard@nod.at>

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 04:29:23PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 20 April 2011, 16:27:02 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:34:25PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > > This adds support for 64 bit atomic operations on
> > > 32 bit UML systems.
> > > XFS needs them since 2.6.38.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
> > > Tested-by: Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
> > > Cc: Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
> > > Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .38.x 084189a: um: disable CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> > 
> > Why is this a stable patch?
> 
> Because it fixes a build error in 2.6.38.
> See: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32812

Then why not put that in the changelog entry in the first place?

thanks,

greg "please save me time" k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20 11:34 [PATCH 1/3] um: Adjust current_thread_info() for gcc-4.6 Richard Weinberger
2011-04-20 11:34 ` [uml-devel] [PATCH 2/3] um: Add support for 64 bit atomic operations Richard Weinberger
2011-04-20 14:27   ` [uml-devel] [stable] " Greg KH
2011-04-20 14:27     ` Greg KH
2011-04-20 14:29     ` Richard Weinberger
2011-04-20 14:34       ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-04-20 14:36         ` Richard Weinberger
2011-04-20 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] uml: fix hppfs build Richard Weinberger

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