Re: [PATCH] [232/275] nfsd: wrong index used in inner loop

From: Michael Tokarev
Date: Thu Mar 31 2011 - 02:44:11 EST


31.03.2011 03:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Doh, so this 232/275 basically reverts that 180 and makes
>> other change down the line, but keeps the subject intact.
>> Especially useful that the two patches are so far away
>> from each other (more than 50 patches in-between).
>> Confusing :)
>>
>> So both are actually needed, apparently.
>
> Sorry about that -- i ended up grabbing those from .32 and since
> there were multiple releases in sequence it ended up this way.

It's definitely not your fault -- second patch should be
named differently (since it does something else) but it's
not.

> I can collapse the two patches.

Just be careful they don't end in the same _file_. In
the gregkh's stable-queue repository each patch is keept
in a separate file named after the subject line, so that
means just that - the same file.

> Are the leftover hunks after that good?

I remember original discussion when first patch has been
posted (was fun to read the original code), but I missed
second half of it. So I re-read it and found the second
part now, all is ok with it and with the resulting two-
patch solution, except of the possible "patch name" clash,
which may only when organizing patches in a plain directory.

Anyway, that's a good story I think, and the conclusion is -
please name your patches correctly :)

Thank you!

/mjt
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