linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean

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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:01:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ranma@...edrich.de,
	tbm@...ius.com, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	andrei.popa@...eo.ro, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	hugh@...itas.com, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, arjan@...radead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one



On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote:
> 
> Yup, but I have nothing to do with glibc because I refuse to do that
> silly copyright assignment FSF thing.  Hopefully someone else can
> resolve it, but...

Yeah, me too.

> _is_ a fix whether _you_ like it or not to work around the issue so
> people can at least run your test program.  I'm not saying it's a
> proper fix though.

My point was that it wasn't a "fix", it's a "workaround". The _fix_ would 
be in glibc.

Nothing more..

		Linus
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