[lustre-devel] [PATCH v3] staging: lustre: Change return type to vm_fault_t

Souptick Joarder jrdr.linux at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 12:11:12 PDT 2018


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:37 AM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 02:30:27AM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>> > >
>> > > If no further comment, we would like to get this patch in 4.18-rc-X.
>> >
>> > Why?  Is it a regression fix?  That's all that is allowed after -rc1.
>>
>> No, this is not regression fix. We need to get this into 4.18-rc-1.  But
>> mostly it can't make into linus tree in rc-1 :)
>
> Why does it _have_ to get into 4.18-rc1?  My tree is long-closed and
> Linus already has all of my patches in his tree for the staging section
> of the kernel.
>
>> > And have you tried applying it to Linus's current tree?  :)
>>
>> Last tested on 4.17-rc-6 and it worked fine. Let me verify in current tree.
>
> Try it, you might be surprised :)

Yes, got the surprise :)
Sorry for making noise, I will drop this patch as it is no more valid
in current Linus's tree.


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