From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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 13:05:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160920110500.GB16639@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920085134.GH13620@mwanda>
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:52:19AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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...
It did? Works here for me, and I didn't see an error report anywhere...
> James, every patch has to be buildable (bisectable) so the original
> patch is never going to be merged.
What is the "original" patch here?
totally confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-20 11:16 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
2016-09-20 11:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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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