Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:47:30 +0100 | | From | Olaf Hering <> | | Subject | Re: [34-longterm 020/196] staging: hv: use sync_bitops when interacting with the hypervisor |
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On Tue, Mar 13, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On 12-03-13 03:00 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > >> From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> > >> > >> ------------------- > >> 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.
Sure. As it stands, the hv drivers in this version are not very stable, more backports are needed. So whoever is using .34 as a base will most likely have many more changes in his patchset.
If you want to apply this change, go ahead. I just wanted to point out the state of the drivers.
Olaf
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