From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753869Ab2CMNeb (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:34:31 -0400 Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:41747 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753329Ab2CMNe3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:34:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4F5F4C86.5050501@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:32:54 -0400 From: Paul Gortmaker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.27) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/3.1.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hering CC: , , , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [34-longterm 020/196] staging: hv: use sync_bitops when interacting with the hypervisor 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> In-Reply-To: <20120313070002.GA19629@aepfle.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [128.224.146.65] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > > I suggest to leave drivers/staging/hv alone in longterm releases, or > backport the entire history of drivers/staging/hv up to 3.4. I had actually thought of this in the past myself as well, but in the end, decided to follow Greg's lead so at least it would be consistent with what is/was done for 2.6.32 P. > > Olaf