Re: [34-longterm 020/196] staging: hv: use sync_bitops wheninteracting with the hypervisor

[Olaf Hering]

On Tue, Mar 13, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> On 12-03-13 03:00 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >>                    -------------------
> >>     This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
> >>     If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
> >>                    -------------------
> >>
> >> commit 22356585712d1ff08fbfed152edd8b386873b238 upstream.
> > 
> > Unless there is a happy user of the hv drivers in this old kernel, it
> > makes no sense to backport just this one patch.
> 
> There is no real way any of can tell just exactly who is using what
> feature in what release.

Sure.
As it stands, the hv drivers in this version are not very stable, more
backports are needed. So whoever is using .34 as a base will most likely
have many more changes in his patchset.

If you want to apply this change, go ahead. I just wanted to point out
the state of the drivers.

Olaf
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