From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Borntraeger Subject: Re: linux-next: missing merge fix for the access_once tree Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:38:55 +0100 Message-ID: <549FC19F.4050504@de.ibm.com> References: <20141223131749.78087632@canb.auug.org.au> <20141223173418.59e8556f@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.109]:44147 "EHLO e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751439AbaL1IjC (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2014 03:39:02 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:39:01 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20141223173418.59e8556f@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell , Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-next , LKML Am 23.12.2014 um 07:34 schrieb Stephen Rothwell: > Hi Linus, > > On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:12:22 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>> >>> I have been carrying this merge fix patch for some time. It should >>> have gone into the merge of the access_once tree. >> >> No, you had a different tree that got merged into linux-next, that >> made it an error to do ACCESS_ONCE() on a structure. >> >> The thing I merged didn't actually have that final commit, exactly so >> that things wouldn't break from missing conversions. >> >> So that patch isn't wrong, but it also isn't exactly a required fix >> until the next merge window.. > > True, so "should" was a bit strong. > I will re-add this up soon for my linux-next branch. There are some additional places which need to be changed, so give me some more days during the holidays Christian