public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [git patches] Ocfs2 and Configfs updates for 2.6.27
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717223018.GC8283@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717214512.GB8283@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:45:12PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:20:38PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:01:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > I pulled it, but I want to register my protest.
> > 
> > 	I wish you hadn't, because it won't be to difficult to go back
> > to PTR_ERR().  However, don't revert it - that affects some of the
> > follow-on patches that were affected by the change.
> 
> 	I lied.  I'll cleanup the fallout.  You can revert it or wait
> for my revert + PTR_ERR.  Let me know if you revert it.

Linus,
	Pull this to get the revert and the PTR_ERR() version:

git://oss.oracle.com/git/jlbec/linux-2.6.git configfs-fixup-ptr-error

It's tested with the same testing I did before - ocfs2 and netconsole.

Joel

-- 

"But all my words come back to me
 In shades of mediocrity.
 Like emptiness in harmony
 I need someone to comfort me."

Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-17 17:51 [git patches] Ocfs2 and Configfs updates for 2.6.27 Mark Fasheh
2008-07-17 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 21:20   ` Joel Becker
2008-07-17 21:45     ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Joel Becker
2008-07-17 22:30       ` Joel Becker [this message]
2008-07-18  8:48         ` Louis Rilling
2008-07-18 22:22           ` Joel Becker

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20080717223018.GC8283@ca-server1.us.oracle.com \
    --to=joel.becker@oracle.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mfasheh@suse.com \
    --cc=ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox