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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:34:49 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:35:03PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Ok, so I'm confused, you want me to apply this patch and then revert a
>> > different one?  Which one, 4a77a5a06ec66ed05199b301e7c25f42f979afdc?
>>
>> b56a39ac conflicts and is replaced with that patch.
>> 4a77a5a0 should stay, as it fixes an actual problem, even with the old
>> code, I think.
>
> Ok, I'm even more confused now.  Maybe I just need more coffee.
>
> Can you list what exactly I should do here?  Should I apply this patch?
> Revert some other patch?  Which one(s)?

Revert b56a39ac (return -EINVAL) and apply the patch from Jan. The
problem b56a39ac solved , is replaced by other logic in Jan's patch.

Kay
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