Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762654AbXJRJ0Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:26:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755260AbXJRJ0P (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:26:15 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:7164 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754973AbXJRJ0O (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:26:14 -0400 From: Christian Borntraeger To: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH] rd: Mark ramdisk buffers heads dirty Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:26:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky , "Theodore Ts'o" , stable@kernel.org References: <200710151028.34407.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200710172348.23113.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710181126.10559.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 16 Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Eric W. Biederman: > Grr. Inconsistent rules on a core piece of infrastructure. > It looks like that if there is any trivial/minimal fix it > is based on your patch suppressing try_to_free_buffers. Ugh. > > Eric Ok. What do you think about having my patch for 2.6.23 stable, for 2.6.24 and doing a nicer fix (rd rewrite for example for post 2.6.24)? Christian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/