From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [217.72.192.73]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 624CE1A0DD9 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 04:34:52 +1100 (AEDT) From: Arnd Bergmann To: Al Viro Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Linus Torvalds , mpe@ellerman.id.au Subject: Re: more POLL... fun Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:34:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1528094.JohtZ1HIQC@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <20151204173031.GJ22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20151127050026.GX22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <2220761.5EzR0eY4bg@wuerfel> <20151204173031.GJ22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Friday 04 December 2015 17:30:31 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... Right. > Something like this, perhaps? > > [spufs] get rid of broken fasync stuff > > In all the years it's been in the tree it had never been used by > anything - it would instantly trigger BUG_ON() in fs/fcntl.c due > to bogus band argument passed to kill_fasync(). Since nobody > had ever used it in ten years, let's just rip it out and be > done with that. > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro > --- Looks all good, thanks! Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann