Re: [34-longterm 020/196] staging: hv: use sync_bitops when interactingwith the hypervisor

[Paul Gortmaker]

On 12-03-13 03:00 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 
>> From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>                    -------------------
>>     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
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