linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v3] Hyper-V commits for 5.0-rc

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Date:   Sat, 23 Feb 2019 10:55:33 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...rosoft.com, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v3] Hyper-V commits for 5.0-rc

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:57:15AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:12:25PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
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>> The following changes since commit 8834f5600cf3c8db365e18a3d5cac2c2780c81e5:
>>
>>   Linux 5.0-rc5 (2019-02-03 13:48:04 -0800)
>>
>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux.git tags/hyperv-fixes-signed
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to b2946cd86f3c1b5b1262c0ec06068110c2328fe6:
>>
>>   MAINTAINERS: Change mailing list for Hyper-V CORE AND DRIVERS (2019-02-22 21:46:37 -0500)
>>
>> - ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Two fixes:
>>
>> 1. A fix for a race condition reading sysfs entries while a device is
>> being added, by Kimberly Brown.
>>
>> 2. Update the Hyper-V mailing list to a new one created on
>> vger.kernel.org, by Haiyang Zhang.
>>
>> - ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Haiyang Zhang (1):
>>       MAINTAINERS: Change mailing list for Hyper-V CORE AND DRIVERS
>>
>> Kimberly Brown (2):
>>       Drivers: hv: vmbus: Change server monitor_pages index to 0
>>       Drivers: hv: vmbus: Return -EINVAL if monitor_allocated not set
>
>I objected to this last patch when it was posted on the list.  The sysfs
>file should just not be present if the functionality is not there, no
>need to add the "-EINVAL" logic to it instead.
>
>Having a sysfs file that says it can be read, and then rejecting that
>read with an error is NOT ok.

Hm, I'm sorry but I didn't see an objection on the thread
(https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190122020759.GA4054@ubu-Virtual-Machine/)
which is why it was sent in like this.

Could you please point me to it so we can get the patch fixed up?

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Thanks,
Sasha