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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:54:04 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function
To:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 1:28 AM Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Revert commit 05a4ab823983 ("powerpc/uaccess: fix warning/error with
> access_ok()") to fix the following compilation error:

Gaah. I even *looked* at the powerpc use of 'type', but then when I
was actually going through my manual editing I forgot all about it.

So this wasn't a case of "the powerpc change was recent and clashed".
This was purely a case of "Linus screwed up".

Sorry.

              Linus