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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cotte@de.ibm.com, npiggin@suse.de, jaredeh@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:38:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090402093852.30bbf3e9@skybase> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090401141700.f5ef3c08.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:17:00 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:32:23 +0200
> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Please get into the habit of adding Cc: <stable@kernel.org> to the
> changelogs?

Ok, I've made me a sticky note and attached it to my monitor. Perhaps
that will help me to remember .. 

> I believe I personally am pretty good at picking up stable things, but
> other patch-mergers are quite unreliable.  We all need as much help as
> we can get on this, because things are falling through cracks.

Ok, makes sense. Better safe than sorry.
 
> > With this bug fix the commit 0e4a9b59282914fe057ab17027f55123964bc2e2
> > "ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes"
> > can be removed again.
> 
> OK, please send a standalone patch to do this at an appropriate time. 
> I guess that this second patch won't be needed in -stable.
 
The revert should be done either with the bug fix or after the bug fix
hit mainline. Guess I just create the patch and send it.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-31 13:32 [PATCH] do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-02  7:38   ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2009-04-03 20:53 ` Jared Hulbert
2009-04-04  0:35 ` Minchan Kim

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