linux-kernel - Re: inotify fixes in stable

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Message-Id: <200803251415.38235.chunkeey@web.de>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:15:37 +0100
From:	Chr <chunkeey@....de>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
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

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 01:42:33 Chris Wright wrote:
> * Chr (chunkeey@....de) wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> Please just explicitly send the fixes to stable@...nel.org and Cc Nick.
Done...! I took both patches from the current git-tree.
but forgot to add a tested-by flag... well, but I added the patches, right?!

>
> 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.
hmm, Nick said that the debug code is racy and "not very good at finding 
problems" either... But as long as the real fix has a _real_ change to get 
merged in 2.6.24.5, I'm happy ;-)

>
> thanks,
> -chris

Regards,
	Christian
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