Re: Patch "btrfs: remove duplicate const specifier" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Greg KH
2017-08-30T18:13:42Z

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 06:50:07PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 05:29:36PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > btrfs: remove duplicate const specifier
> >
> > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> > The filename of the patch is:
> > btrfs-remove-duplicate-const-specifier.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
> This patch IMO does not belong to stable, it's just a cleanup and does
> not fix anything that's worth the time of anybody involved in stable trees.

On the contrary, it fixes a build warning in the tree, and having lots
of warnings hides real problems. The tree used to build "clean" with
gcc6, but now that my build systems are running gcc7, stuff like this
needs to get cleaned up again.

So this is a needed fix.

thanks,

greg k-h