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Subject: Re: more POLL... fun
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 17:30 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:13:54PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Yes, I think that would be best. Do you want me to send that patch, or do
> > you prefer to do it yourself? In theory that patch should also go into stable
> > kernels, but I suspect nobody who still owns a machine that is able to run
> > this code will ever upgrade to a stable release, so we probably don't need
> > that.
> 
> Probably better if it goes through ppc tree - the only relationship it has
> to VFS is broken calls of kill_fasync() in now-removed code...  Something
> like this, perhaps?

Yeah that looks fine to me. I'll take it into powerpc#next for 4.5.

cheers