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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:14:35 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 082/152] virtio: use dev_to_virtio wrapper in virtio

Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> writes:
> On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 15:56 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> writes:
>> > 3.2.67-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>> 
>> Ben, what are your criteria for putting patches into 3.2?
>> 
>> This patch is a trivial cleanup.  It doesn't fix anything, but it does
>> add some churn.
>
> It fixes the definition of dev_to_virtio().

Argh, sorry I should have caught that.  The commit message didn't
actually mention that it fixed anything (and I took it).  :(

>> I can see that 083 and 084 follow this, but 083 needed a backport
>> anyway.
>
> Patch 083 "virtio_pci: defer kfree until release callback" uses
> dev_to_virtio(_d) which would expand to a syntax error without this.
>
>> And it wasn't an issue we saw in Real Life (device removal
>> is rare), so it wasn't CC: stable.
>> 
>> 084 was a comment addition.  Backporting that just seems weird.
>
> Nevertheless, it had 'cc: stable' and is obviously harmless.

Ah I see, you stripped the cc:stable in your version.  The original
did indeed have CC:stable, which is MST's perogative...

Thanks for the explanation,
Rusty.
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