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Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:46:52 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system call

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:11:50AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:57:52 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bruce,
> > 
> > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:03:11 -0400 "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
> > > 
> > > The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
> > > linkage for it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > I don't normally have to deal with this kind of cross-architecture
> > > patch; is this the right etiquette for it?
> > 
> > It turns out (with hindsight) that my reaction to this patch should have
> > been:
> > 
> > If you haven't built this on all architectures (an noone expects you to
> > actually do that), then it should spend a day or two in linux-next before
> > being sent to Linus.
> > 
> 
> Hi Stephen,
>  Thanks for your help in sorting this out.  I have no idea how I missed those
>  few nfsservctl references but I clearly did and you and -next have proved
>  valuable yet again.
> 
>  And really *everything* should spend a few days in linux-next before going
>  to Linus.  We all know that but it sometimes seem hard to *do* that ....
>  until we have learnt the hard way a couple of times :-(

Yes, sorry, I'll know not to skip -next, next time....

(My excuse: I've been advertising to -next only stuff that I've done
with and committed, and this was something I wasn't even sure I should
take.

But I could have either mailed it out labelled as [RFC], or stuck it in
a throwaway branch to merge into my -next branch.)

Apologies again, and thanks for dealing with it so promptly.

--b.
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