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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:42:33 -0700 From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org> To: Chr <chunkeey@....de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: inotify fixes in stable * Chr (chunkeey@....de) wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 05:12:37 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > The messages should actually be harmless. There is a race in the debug > > code that can trigger them. But I wouldn't object to the patches going > > to -stable... > > > let me guess... the patch didn't get into 2.6.24.4, right? because I still > get these noisy "WARNING: at fs/inotify.c:172 set_dentry_child_flags()" > and probably alot of other kde4 users too?! a) doesn't appear to have been Cc'd to stable@...nel.org until now (fell through one crack) b) there was outstanding request from greg for clarification of the issue for 2.6.24 (fell through another crack) Please just explicitly send the fixes to stable@...nel.org and Cc Nick. I'm actually disinclined to take 0d71bd5993b630a989d15adc2562a9ffe41cd26d which seems to primarily just remove the WARN_ON(), although that is assuming it is indeed no longer triggered with just the race fix, d599e36a9ea85432587f4550acc113cd7549d12a. thanks, -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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