Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:28:12 -0400
From: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
To: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: linux-ntb@googlegroups.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Kurt Schwemmer <kurt.schwemmer@microsemi.com>,
        Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>,
        Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/16] ntb: ensure ntb_mw_get_align() is only called
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:17:47PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On 01/08/17 12:14 PM, Jon Mason wrote:
> > This also looks like a bug fix.  However, given that it is a little more
> > invasive and no one reporting any problems with it, I'm less apt to
> > pull it into the bug-fixes branch without anyone compilaining of a
> > bug (lest I break something in -stable).
> 
> Yes, 6 and 7 change a semantic of that function. I wouldn't call them
> bug fixes. But you can't pull 7 without pulling 6, as 7 would break
> everything unless the change in 6 occurs.

Okay, then I'll hold off on 7 then.  It wasn't clear to me, based on
the patch descriptions, that this was fallout from the previous patch.
Thanks for clearing this up for me.

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Logan
> 
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