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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, James Simmons <uja.ornl@yahoo.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
	Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: re-export lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:52:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160920085134.GH13620@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920064702.GB8527@kroah.com>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:47:02AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 01:27:05PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > Being over zealous in removing unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs two functions
> > lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md exports were removed. They need to be
> > exported so this patch restores those EXPORT_SYMBOLS. Same mistake
> > was done when porting to the upstream client.
> 
> How did our build testing not catch this?  What needs these exports?  Is
> it any in-kernel code?
> 
> confused,

It did catch it...  James, every patch has to be buildable (bisectable)
so the original patch is never going to be merged.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-20  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-19 17:27 [PATCH] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: re-export lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md James Simmons
2016-09-20  6:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-20  8:52   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2016-09-20 11:05     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-20 11:16       ` Dan Carpenter
2016-09-20 11:39         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-20 15:32         ` [lustre-devel] " James Simmons
2016-09-20 15:18     ` James Simmons
2016-09-20 11:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-20 15:52   ` James Simmons

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