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Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:34:27 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 28/78] nvme: have nvme_wait_freeze_timeout return if
 it timed out
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Hi!

> [ Upstream commit 7cf0d7c0f3c3b0203aaf81c1bc884924d8fdb9bd ]
>=20
> Users can detect if the wait has completed or not and take appropriate
> actions based on this information (e.g. weather to continue
> initialization or rather fail and schedule another initialization
> attempt).

This does not fix any bug and is not needed in 4.19-stable. In the
5.8-stable there are other patches that depend on that (which is
probably why it was merged), but those are not present in 4.19.

Please drop.

Best regards,
								Pavel

> -void nvme_wait_freeze_timeout(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, long timeout);
> +int nvme_wait_freeze_timeout(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, long timeout);

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