From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756825Ab0CaHS5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:18:57 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:43857 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756151Ab0CaHS4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:18:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4BB2F75C.4060004@canonical.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:18:52 +0200 From: Stefan Bader User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH 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 References: <12689584863184@kroah.org> <4BB1E98E.9050702@canonical.com> <20100330200522.GD1693@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100330200522.GD1693@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > 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... Sometimes its more or less to change. Well at least David saying "nah" and not "hm argh" achieved half of what the intention of the suggested annotation was. :) Thanks, Stefan > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/