Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:06:15 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        "lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: lustre: remove IOC_LIBCFS_PING_TEST ioctl
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 04:31:39AM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> On 2015/11/08, 09:34, "James Simmons" <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> >The ioctl IOC_LIBCFS_PING_TEST has not been used in
> >ages. The recent nidstring changes which moved all
> >the nidstring operations from libcfs to the LNet
> >layer but this ioctl code was still using an
> >nidstring operation that was causing an circular
> >dependency loop between libcfs and LNet:
> 
> Hi Greg,
> are you planning on pushing this patch to Linus for 4.4?  It was resent
> on 11/08 per your request on 11/07 but I don't see it in staging or
> staging-next yet.  Since it fixes the depmod dependency cycle for
> allmodconfig builds on mainline it seems worthwhile to include into
> 4.4-rc3 rather than waiting for 4.5.

No one told me it fixed a bug, let me see if it's still even needed...


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