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

[Olaf Hering]

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.

I suggest to leave drivers/staging/hv alone in longterm releases, or
backport the entire history of drivers/staging/hv up to 3.4.

Olaf
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