Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758959AbZDBHjj (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 03:39:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762636AbZDBHjF (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 03:39:05 -0400 Received: from mtagate1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.17.161]:45648 "EHLO mtagate1.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758031AbZDBHjD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 03:39:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:38:52 +0200 From: Martin Schwidefsky To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cotte@de.ibm.com, npiggin@suse.de, jaredeh@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation Message-ID: <20090402093852.30bbf3e9@skybase> In-Reply-To: <20090401141700.f5ef3c08.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090331153223.74b177bd@skybase> <20090401141700.f5ef3c08.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: IBM Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1383 Lines: 39 On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:17:00 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:32:23 +0200 > Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > Please get into the habit of adding Cc: to the > changelogs? Ok, I've made me a sticky note and attached it to my monitor. Perhaps that will help me to remember .. > I believe I personally am pretty good at picking up stable things, but > other patch-mergers are quite unreliable. We all need as much help as > we can get on this, because things are falling through cracks. Ok, makes sense. Better safe than sorry. > > With this bug fix the commit 0e4a9b59282914fe057ab17027f55123964bc2e2 > > "ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes" > > can be removed again. > > OK, please send a standalone patch to do this at an appropriate time. > I guess that this second patch won't be needed in -stable. The revert should be done either with the bug fix or after the bug fix hit mainline. Guess I just create the patch and send it. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- 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/