From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754695Ab2CMHAO (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:00:14 -0400 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.161]:41224 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721Ab2CMHAM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:00:12 -0400 X-RZG-AUTH: :P2EQZWCpfu+qG7CngxMFH1J+zrwiavkK6tmQaLfmwtM48/lq3M7qFLaZ X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:00:02 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [34-longterm 020/196] staging: hv: use sync_bitops when interacting with the hypervisor Message-ID: <20120313070002.GA19629@aepfle.de> References: <1331597724-31358-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1331597724-31358-21-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1331597724-31358-21-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21.rev5543 (2011-12-20) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 12, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > From: Olaf Hering > > ------------------- > This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. > If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. > ------------------- > > commit 22356585712d1ff08fbfed152edd8b386873b238 upstream. Unless there is a happy user of the hv drivers in this old kernel, it makes no sense to backport just this one patch. I suggest to leave drivers/staging/hv alone in longterm releases, or backport the entire history of drivers/staging/hv up to 3.4. Olaf