linux-kernel - Re: nfsd fixes for 2.6.30

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Message-ID: <20090512201526.GA20972@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 16:15:26 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfsd fixes for 2.6.30

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:29:12PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> The following nfsd fixes are available from the for-2.6.30 branch at:
> 
> 	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git for-2.6.30
> 
> (Note: I wasn't sure of the last one, "nfsd: silence lockdep warning":
> on the one hand, it's just a warning.  On the other hand, a lot of users
> may assume it's something more serious and freak out, just because
> there's a backtrace in it.  Should this have been saved for the next
> merge window?)

I think it's fine.  For non-lockdep builds the annotation doesn't change
anything, and for lockdep builds it fixes the false positive.

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