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From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patrick Farrell <paf@cray.com>
Cc: "john.hammond@intel.com" <john.hammond@intel.com>,
	"jsimmons@infradead.org" <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
	"lai.siyao@intel.com" <lai.siyao@intel.com>,
	"oleg.drokin@intel.com" <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable-commits@vger.kernel.org" <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch "staging: lustre: mdc: Make IT_OPEN take lookup bits lock" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:22:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170511122203.GA12521@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CY4PR11MB17513A806206DED46E1BCBE3CBED0@CY4PR11MB1751.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:10:19PM +0000, Patrick Farrell wrote:
> Greg et al.,
> 
> 
> Can someone copied here say why this was pushed to stable?  When I wrote the
> patch, my impression was the code was wrong but it didn't cause any problems.
>  I thought this was basically cleanup.  If someone found a problem associated
> with this patch, I'd be curious to hear.

I thought it was needed, based on the patch and the fixes: field.  But
you are right, it's not really necessary, so I'll go drop it from the
queue.  Thanks for noticing this and letting me know.

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-11 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-11  8:25 Patch "staging: lustre: mdc: Make IT_OPEN take lookup bits lock" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree gregkh
     [not found] ` <CY4PR11MB17513A806206DED46E1BCBE3CBED0@CY4PR11MB1751.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
2017-05-11 12:22   ` gregkh [this message]

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