Re: [GIT PULL] IDA/IDR fixes for 4.19

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 18 2018 - 06:13:57 EST


On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:26:34PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:16:08AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax.git ida-fixes-4.19-rc8
> > >
> > > How about you at least test these in linux-next? Putting things on top
> > > of the most recent change is a huge tip-off that this branch got no
> > > testing :(
> >
> > One of the two changes is a comment line in a doc file.
> > The other has been tested by 0day (which originally reported the issue).
> >
> > I don't see how spending time in linux-next is going to achieve anything.
>
> Especialy if we miss 4.19 final with that. The documentation patch
> avoids the probem of CC-BY-SA-4.0 including larger amounts of GPL files
> in the output document, so we should have this before the release for
> sure, and the other is just a test that isn't even in a normal kernel
> build.

Ok, both patches are now pulled.

> Also after idr.rst is removed we should include something like this:
>
> ---
> >From c3660257f981e7a7254d18f52af64a2077f7bb49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:22:39 +0200
> Subject: LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text

<snip>

Great idea, I've also merged this now as well after checking linux-next
to ensure that no one else is using this license there either.

thanks,

greg k-h