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Message-ID: <20160923093751.1b74c620@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:37:51 +1000
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
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Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Subject: Re: + softirq-fix-tasklet_kill-and-its-users.patch added to -mm
tree
Hi Thomas,
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> B1;2802;0cOn Wed, 21 Sep 2016, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > I requested you to include this patch but now am not sure anymore.
> > Looks like there are almost 30 more users which are directly
> > tweaking 'tasklet_struct' fields and calling other APIs. Hunting them
> > and fixing them probably would be an exercise and also those changes
> > needs those changed drivers to be tested.
> >
> > What do you suggest ? At least this patch needs to be dropped as of now
> > till we can have complete coverage for those bad users.
>
> Yes, it needs to be dropped. Stephen, can you please revert it from next?
I will do the revert today. It reverts cleanly, so hopefully there are
no side effects.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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