linux-kernel - Re: [ 17/68] regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory fault

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Message-ID: <20120309205257.GC23244@burratino>
Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:52:57 -0600
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>
Subject: Re: [ 17/68] regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory
 fault

Greg KH wrote:

> "making things sane" is good enough for me :)

Thanks.  That answers my question.

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:34:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Part of the reason I am asking is to figure out whether the patch
>> ought to be applied to 2.6.32.y, too.
>
> Why do you think it should not be?

I think it should be.  If there were some motivation like "without
this patch, in circumstance X, gdb produces such-and-such bad
behavior", that would make it easier. ;-)

Ciao,
Jonathan
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