linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] orangefs: Axe some dead code

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Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:09:39 -0500
From:   Mike Marshall <hubcap@...ibond.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Martin Brandenburg <martin@...ibond.com>,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] orangefs: Axe some dead code

We're on rc7 now. Linus said in LWN that there might be a rc8 this time.
I'll try to get this pulled in 4.9-rc8 I hope, or sometime in 4.10...
it is just a
few lines of code that I don't think can be reached. Sorry for the confusion.

-Mike

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 07:31:11AM -0500, Mike Marshall wrote:
>> This seems like a good and proper patch to me, and simple too.
>> But like all changes, it needs tested. While I was testing it, I
>> discovered a regression in the associated userspace code. I
>> "bisected" (we use SVN for the userspace part of Orangefs)
>> down to the commit that caused the regression, and some
>> of the userspace folks are going to fix it.
>>
>> I don't think I should ask Linus to pull this patch until I can
>> test it. Since we're about to go into rc7, it might not go in
>> until the next go around...
>>
>
> Linus is on 4.9-rc7 so you're saying this would probably go into 4.11?
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>