linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 28/78] nvme: have nvme_wait_freeze

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Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:34:27 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 28/78] nvme: have nvme_wait_freeze_timeout return if
 it timed out

Hi!

> [ Upstream commit 7cf0d7c0f3c3b0203aaf81c1bc884924d8fdb9bd ]
> 
> Users can detect if the wait has completed or not and take appropriate
> actions based on this information (e.g. weather to continue
> initialization or rather fail and schedule another initialization
> attempt).

This does not fix any bug and is not needed in 4.19-stable. In the
5.8-stable there are other patches that depend on that (which is
probably why it was merged), but those are not present in 4.19.

Please drop.

Best regards,
								Pavel

> -void nvme_wait_freeze_timeout(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, long timeout);
> +int nvme_wait_freeze_timeout(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, long timeout);

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