linux-kernel - Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [git patches] Ocfs2 and Configfs updates for 2.6.27

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Message-ID: <20080717223018.GC8283@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:18 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [git patches] Ocfs2 and Configfs updates for
	2.6.27

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:45:12PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:20:38PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:01:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > I pulled it, but I want to register my protest.
> > 
> > 	I wish you hadn't, because it won't be to difficult to go back
> > to PTR_ERR().  However, don't revert it - that affects some of the
> > follow-on patches that were affected by the change.
> 
> 	I lied.  I'll cleanup the fallout.  You can revert it or wait
> for my revert + PTR_ERR.  Let me know if you revert it.

Linus,
	Pull this to get the revert and the PTR_ERR() version:

git://oss.oracle.com/git/jlbec/linux-2.6.git configfs-fixup-ptr-error

It's tested with the same testing I did before - ocfs2 and netconsole.

Joel

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