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SubjectRe: [stable] patch sparc64-make-prom-entry-spinlock-nmi-safe.patch added to 2.6.32-stable tree
Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:07:42PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> This converted the raw_spinlock usage which is used in the upstream patch but
>> not available in 2.6.32 to normal spinlock usage. Should it get annotated to
>> document that?
>
> why, you obviously figured that out :)
>
> It's not the normal thing to do for backports otherwise we would be here
> all day long...

Sometimes its more or less to change. Well at least David saying "nah" and not
"hm argh" achieved half of what the intention of the suggested annotation was. :)

Thanks,
Stefan

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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