linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.10 50/74] uio: provide vm access to UIO_MEM

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Date:	Sat, 9 Nov 2013 08:10:30 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10 50/74] uio: provide vm access to UIO_MEM_PHYS maps

On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 03:22:16PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 10:51:55PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > 
> > commit 7294151d0592e0ff48c61fca9fd7c93d613134da upstream.
> > 
> > This makes it possible to let gdb access mappings of the process that is
> > being debugged.
> > 
> > uio_mmap_logical was moved and uio_vm_ops renamed to group related code
> > and differentiate to new stuff.
> I wonder why you picked that one for stable?!

Because of a bugfix in a later patch that requires this one...

thanks,

greg k-h
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