Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755203AbcDJPfL (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:35:11 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45483 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753607AbcDJPfJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:35:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 08:35:07 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: James Simmons Cc: Jeff Mahoney , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Andreas Dilger , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Drokin , Lustre Development List Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] staging: lustre: lloop: Fix build failure on ppc64 Message-ID: <20160410153507.GA1326@kroah.com> References: <1460294020-2111-1-git-send-email-jsimmons@infradead.org> <1460294020-2111-14-git-send-email-jsimmons@infradead.org> <63807394-FF62-4376-95FD-412309D47BF7@suse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 544 Lines: 16 On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 03:04:51PM +0100, James Simmons wrote: > > > This patch was shown not to work. I just haven't removed it from opensuse yet. > > Its been running in our production tree as well for some time. Guess that > change is a noop. In any case we have been discussing redoing the lloop > driver anyways. Just need to find the cycles. Why do you need this driver? I know Christoph has pointed out many times that it should just be dropped as it's not needed. And should I drop this patch from the series? thanks, greg k-h