Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:00:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Re: [159/244] ipc/mqueue.c: fix mq_open() return value |
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----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:08:55 -0700 > > Doug, the thing to do here is to rework your recent mqueue patchset. > Prepare a minimal, critical-stuff series of bugfix patches against > current Linus mainline which is also applicable to -stable. We can > merge that into 3.1 or, more likely, into 3.2-rc1/3.1.x.
The original patchset was against a clean Linus mainline, so that's already done.
> Then, later, we can merge up the less critical parts of that > patchset. > > otoh, the only not-applicable-to-stable part of that patchset appears > to be "[1/5] ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and locations" and > it's fairly small. So we could perhaps just merge all five into > 3.2-rc1, with a -stable backport.
That would be my suggestion.
> Doing that backport would require that we first backport the buggy > patches (ie: this one), which is a bit weird. Perhaps it would be > better for you to prepare a reworked patch series for 3.0.x after > that five-patch series hits mainline.
That or drop the buggy patch from -stable then fix it all in one go.
-- Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford
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