From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3vP58c6rzgzDq60 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:59:44 +1100 (AEDT) In-Reply-To: <20151204173031.GJ22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> To: Al Viro , Arnd Bergmann From: Michael Ellerman Cc: Linus Torvalds , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: more POLL... fun Message-Id: <3vP58c692tz9s8V@ozlabs.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:59:44 +1100 (AEDT) List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 17:30:31 UTC, 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? > > [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 > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7d7be3aa08fa338e84eb235805ee18 cheers