Re: [PATCH 13/17] staging: lustre: lloop: Fix build failure on ppc64

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 03:04:51PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > This patch was shown not to work. I just haven't removed it from opensuse yet.
> 
> Its been running in our production tree as well for some time. Guess that 
> change is a noop. In any case we have been discussing redoing the lloop 
> driver anyways. Just need to find the cycles.

Why do you need this driver?  I know Christoph has pointed out many
times that it should just be dropped as it's not needed.

And should I drop this patch from the series?

thanks,

greg k-h