Re: [PATCH] do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation

[Martin Schwidefsky]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:17:00 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:32:23 +0200
> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Please get into the habit of adding Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> to the
> changelogs?

Ok, I've made me a sticky note and attached it to my monitor. Perhaps
that will help me to remember .. 

> I believe I personally am pretty good at picking up stable things, but
> other patch-mergers are quite unreliable.  We all need as much help as
> we can get on this, because things are falling through cracks.

Ok, makes sense. Better safe than sorry.
 
> > With this bug fix the commit 0e4a9b59282914fe057ab17027f55123964bc2e2
> > "ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes"
> > can be removed again.
> 
> OK, please send a standalone patch to do this at an appropriate time. 
> I guess that this second patch won't be needed in -stable.
 
The revert should be done either with the bug fix or after the bug fix
hit mainline. Guess I just create the patch and send it.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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