Re: [ 31/82] mm/vmalloc.c: change void* into explict vm_struct*

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit db1aecafef58b5dda39c4228debe2c845e4a27ab upstream.
> 
> vmap_area->private is void* but we don't use the field for various purpose
> but use only for vm_struct.  So change it to a vm_struct* with naming to
> improve for readability and type checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not sure this is stable material and it wasn't annotated as such when 
it was commited, why should someone need to upgrade their 3.2 for a patch 
like this?
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