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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:37:51 +1000
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: + softirq-fix-tasklet_kill-and-its-users.patch added to -mm
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Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> B1;2802;0cOn Wed, 21 Sep 2016, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > I requested you to include this patch but now am not sure anymore.
> > Looks like there are almost 30 more users which are directly
> > tweaking 'tasklet_struct' fields and calling other APIs. Hunting them
> > and fixing them probably would be an exercise and also those changes
> > needs those changed drivers to be tested.
> > 
> > What do you suggest ? At least this patch needs to be dropped as of now
> > till we can have complete coverage for those bad users.  
> 
> Yes, it needs to be dropped. Stephen, can you please revert it from next?

I will do the revert today.  It reverts cleanly, so hopefully there are
no side effects.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell