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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/3] um: Add support for 64 bit atomic operations
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:29:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104201629.24099.richard@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110420142702.GB22114@kroah.com>

Am Mittwoch 20 April 2011, 16:27:02 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:34:25PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > This adds support for 64 bit atomic operations on
> > 32 bit UML systems.
> > XFS needs them since 2.6.38.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
> > Tested-by: Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
> > Cc: Martin Walch <walch.martin@web.de>
> > Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .38.x 084189a: um: disable CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> 
> Why is this a stable patch?

Because it fixes a build error in 2.6.38.
See: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32812

Thanks,
//richard

> confused,
> 
> greg k-h


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20 11:34 [PATCH 1/3] um: Adjust current_thread_info() for gcc-4.6 Richard Weinberger
2011-04-20 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] uml: fix hppfs build Richard Weinberger
     [not found] ` <1303299266-10219-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at>
2011-04-20 14:27   ` [stable] [PATCH 2/3] um: Add support for 64 bit atomic operations Greg KH
2011-04-20 14:29     ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2011-04-20 14:34       ` Greg KH
2011-04-20 14:36         ` Richard Weinberger

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