From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755559Ab0C3Uc0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:32:26 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:50783 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751643Ab0C3UcY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:32:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:05:22 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Stefan Bader Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] patch sparc64-make-prom-entry-spinlock-nmi-safe.patch added to 2.6.32-stable tree Message-ID: <20100330200522.GD1693@kroah.com> References: <12689584863184@kroah.org> <4BB1E98E.9050702@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BB1E98E.9050702@canonical.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:07:42PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote: > This converted the raw_spinlock usage which is used in the upstream patch but > not available in 2.6.32 to normal spinlock usage. Should it get annotated to > document that? why, you obviously figured that out :) It's not the normal thing to do for backports otherwise we would be here all day long... thanks, greg k-h