Re: [PATCH 3.10 50/74] uio: provide vm access to UIO_MEM_PHYS maps

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 03:22:16PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 10:51:55PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit 7294151d0592e0ff48c61fca9fd7c93d613134da upstream.
> > 
> > This makes it possible to let gdb access mappings of the process that is
> > being debugged.
> > 
> > uio_mmap_logical was moved and uio_vm_ops renamed to group related code
> > and differentiate to new stuff.
> I wonder why you picked that one for stable?!

Because of a bugfix in a later patch that requires this one...

thanks,

greg k-h
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