Re: linux-next: missing merge fix for the access_once tree

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Sun Dec 28 2014 - 03:39:22 EST


Am 23.12.2014 um 07:34 schrieb Stephen Rothwell:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:12:22 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been carrying this merge fix patch for some time. It should
>>> have gone into the merge of the access_once tree.
>>
>> No, you had a different tree that got merged into linux-next, that
>> made it an error to do ACCESS_ONCE() on a structure.
>>
>> The thing I merged didn't actually have that final commit, exactly so
>> that things wouldn't break from missing conversions.
>>
>> So that patch isn't wrong, but it also isn't exactly a required fix
>> until the next merge window..
>
> True, so "should" was a bit strong.
>

I will re-add this up soon for my linux-next branch.
There are some additional places which need to be changed, so give me some more days during the holidays

Christian

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