Re: [GIT PULL] s390 patches for 4.6-rc2

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Mar 31 2016 - 09:00:03 EST


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Martin Schwidefsky
<schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> to receive the following updates:
>
> * An interface for dasd driver to query if a volume is online to
> another operating system
> * A proper fix for the lcu locking issue in the dasd driver
> * Add the new preadv2 and pwritev2 system calls
> * Define the mark_rodata_ro function and set DEBUG_RODATA=y
> * A few more bug fixes.

I'm not seeing that the dasd changes are bugfixes.

Not pulled. You can try to explain more, but on the whole this looks
more like a new feature than anything else.

Linus