From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48992 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755489AbdEKMWM (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2017 08:22:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:22:03 +0200 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: Patrick Farrell Cc: "john.hammond@intel.com" , "jsimmons@infradead.org" , "lai.siyao@intel.com" , "oleg.drokin@intel.com" , "stable@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 Message-ID: <20170511122203.GA12521@kroah.com> References: <149449113420182@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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