From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754096Ab2CMNrl (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:47:41 -0400 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.160]:53202 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754021Ab2CMNrj (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:47:39 -0400 X-RZG-AUTH: :P2EQZWCpfu+qG7CngxMFH1J+zrwiavkK6tmQaLfmwtM48/lq3M7qFLaZ X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:47:30 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [34-longterm 020/196] staging: hv: use sync_bitops when interacting with the hypervisor Message-ID: <20120313134730.GB15096@aepfle.de> References: <1331597724-31358-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1331597724-31358-21-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <20120313070002.GA19629@aepfle.de> <4F5F4C86.5050501@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F5F4C86.5050501@windriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21.rev5543 (2011-12-20) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 13, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > On 12-03-13 03:00 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > >> From: Olaf Hering > >> > >> ------------------- > >> This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. > >> If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. > >> ------------------- > >> > >> commit 22356585712d1ff08fbfed152edd8b386873b238 upstream. > > > > Unless there is a happy user of the hv drivers in this old kernel, it > > makes no sense to backport just this one patch. > > There is no real way any of can tell just exactly who is using what > feature in what release. Sure. As it stands, the hv drivers in this version are not very stable, more backports are needed. So whoever is using .34 as a base will most likely have many more changes in his patchset. If you want to apply this change, go ahead. I just wanted to point out the state of the drivers. Olaf