On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:22:23PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:33:51PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > > I went through the patches and didn't see anything that would shock me > > enough not to apply the patches in the current if they also work when > > tested *but* are these release critical for Linux v4.4? > > > > I got a bit confused about the discussion that was going on about "where > > to fix the probe" crash whether or not both it should be fixed in both > > places. > > I'm also confused by that.. > > It sounds like force=1 is broken in 4.4 right now - do we care? Should > we fix this by using Martin's patch? > > These changes are complex enough they really shouldn't go into 4.4 > unless absolutely necessary.
The reasons I'm asking this are: * I'm planning to do v4.5 pull request soon. * If this need to be get this into v4.4, we should act fast. Given the complexity of the changes I'd not recommend that unless it is a life and death question. > > Could you possibly make these apply on top of security/next and > > re-submit if needed? > > It isn't trivial to reorder all 10 patches to do this, I'd like to > know we need to do this for sure first. Uwe? Agreed. First we have to know whether these changes have go to v4.4. > Jason /Jarkko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
