linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm fixes

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Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:40:47 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:32:45PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> The fix is fairly trivial. There's a "big" patch to fs/jffs2/dir.c which
> accounts for the bulk of my pull request, but if you look harder you'll
> see it's mostly just a bunch of removing 'return ret;' and adding 
> 'goto fail;' so the error cleanup happens properly.
> 
> Al pointed out a second problem at the same time, fixed by commit
> e72e6497 in the tree I asked you to pull. That involved adding an
> unlock_new_inode() to the same error paths that the first patch used.
> 
> Between the two bugs, I figured it was worth pushing the fixes for
> 2.6.35.
> 
> The third jffs2 patch in that tree is a fix for ctime semantics which is
> a two-liner. Again not a regression but worth fixing, and -stable
> fodder.
> 
> Al also pointed out that I could use iget_failed(), but I figured that
> cleanup could wait for 2.6.36.

BTW, if you put jffs2 stuff into a separate queue, I can just pull it
(and add iget_failed() conversion on top of that).  Not a problem...
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