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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:15:07 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	<yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kay Sievers" <kay@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] syslog: fill buffer with more than a single
 message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ

>>> On 26.06.12 at 21:55, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:34:49AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:35:03PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Ok, so I'm confused, you want me to apply this patch and then revert a
>> >> > different one?  Which one, 4a77a5a06ec66ed05199b301e7c25f42f979afdc?
>> >>
>> >> b56a39ac conflicts and is replaced with that patch.
>> >> 4a77a5a0 should stay, as it fixes an actual problem, even with the old
>> >> code, I think.
>> >
>> > Ok, I'm even more confused now.  Maybe I just need more coffee.
>> >
>> > Can you list what exactly I should do here?  Should I apply this patch?
>> > Revert some other patch?  Which one(s)?
>> 
>> Revert b56a39ac (return -EINVAL) and apply the patch from Jan. The
>> problem b56a39ac solved , is replaced by other logic in Jan's patch.
> 
> Ok, now done, there's nothing else needed here, right?

Thanks - not that I'm aware of.

Jan

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