linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs

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Date:	Sat, 14 Sep 2013 11:33:43 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...ionio.com>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 04:58:36PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:38:15AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:53:21AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > >>> I'm not an ARM expert, so I don't know if ARM should use the
> > >>> asm-generic implementations, or just use __get_user/__put_user in all
> > >>> cases.  I've CC'd rmk.
> > >>
> > >> Why do we have uaccess-unaligned.h ?  Normally, these kinds of things
> > >> are spawned by architectures which have problems with unaligned accesses,
> > >> ARM being one of them, but afaik we've never need this.
> > >>
> > >> With the kernel-side trapping of unaligned accesses on older hardware,
> > >> we've always dealt with the normal accessor faulting.
> > >>
> > >> From what I can tell in the git history, these unaligned put_user and
> > >> get_user have existed all the way back to the dawn of git use.
> > >>
> > >> Can someone enlighten me why we have them?
> > 
> > I somehow fail at email and dropped Russell from CC on accident.  Sigh.
> 
> You're not the first to do that recently.  I'm beginning to think it's
> something someone has written into email clients to make them do in order
> to piss me off.  I mean, it's _hard_ to do - you have to manually edit the
> recipients list to just drop one person.

You configured your mail client to generate a "Mail-Followup-To:" header
field which actively asks other mail clients to remove you from replies.
So you only get what you ask for... ;)

I think the mutt "metoo" variable will change that, but I don't know
for sure.

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