From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755827AbaIDVX0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:23:26 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com ([209.85.214.178]:54463 "EHLO mail-ob0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755230AbaIDVXZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:23:25 -0400 Message-ID: <5408D84B.7040302@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:23:23 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreea Bernat , Greg KH CC: Elena Oat , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8188eu: Replace rcu_dereference() with rcu_access_pointer() References: <20140817114336.GA24984@ada> <20140830204246.GA16563@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/04/2014 03:58 PM, Andreea Bernat wrote: > Hello, > > I cloned this: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git > > and after moved to staging-next branch, but in both cases, in > those files I don't find any use of rcu_dereference() call (the call > which I am looking for to modify). The rcu_dereference() call in core/rtw_mlme.c is no longer there in mainline 3.17, thus it was removed some time ago. There is a similar reference in os_dep/recv_linux.c. Perhaps it should be removed. This problem shows the importance of working with the latest pull of the staging repo when working with staging code. Even then patches may suffer mid-air collisions if multiple devs are working on a particular piece of code. Larry