linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] s390 patches for 4.6-rc2

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyEDjfDd_Ni3ZUcf4jkwBYvuLZOdmWP-FnRgchW1hj5OQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 07:59:56 -0500
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] s390 patches for 4.6-rc2

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Martin Schwidefsky
<schwidefsky@...ibm.com> wrote:
>
> to receive the following updates:
>
> * An interface for dasd driver to query if a volume is online to
>   another operating system
> * A proper fix for the lcu locking issue in the dasd driver
> * Add the new preadv2 and pwritev2 system calls
> * Define the mark_rodata_ro function and set DEBUG_RODATA=y
> * A few more bug fixes.

I'm not seeing that the dasd changes are bugfixes.

Not pulled. You can try to explain more, but on the whole this looks
more like a new feature than anything else.

             Linus