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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:42:11 +0100 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com> To: Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org> CC: mtk.manpages@...il.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Darren Hart <darren@...art.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] futex: Fix argument handling in futex_lock_pi() calls On 01/17/2015 03:04 AM, Darren Hart wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 08:28:06PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com> >> >> This patch fixes two separate buglets in calls to futex_lock_pi(): >> >> * Eliminate unused 'detect' argument >> * Change unused 'timeout' argument of FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI to NULL > > One might argue these should be two separate fixes. Since both are trivial and functional > no-ops, I'm going to ignore it and consider it a "cleanup" :-) Thomas may > disagree. Yup, and that's what I was going to do until I realized that the patches changed the same line. Then I thought it easier to combine them (rather than make dependent patches), since they're fairly trivial. But, I'll split them if Thomas wishes. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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