Re: [GIT PULL v3] Hyper-V commits for 5.0-rc

[Sasha Levin]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:57:15AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:12:25PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
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> > The following changes since commit 8834f5600cf3c8db365e18a3d5cac2c2780c81e5:
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> >   Linux 5.0-rc5 (2019-02-03 13:48:04 -0800)
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> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux.git tags/hyperv-fixes-signed
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to b2946cd86f3c1b5b1262c0ec06068110c2328fe6:
> >
> >   MAINTAINERS: Change mailing list for Hyper-V CORE AND DRIVERS (2019-02-22 21:46:37 -0500)
> >
> > - ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Two fixes:
> >
> > 1. A fix for a race condition reading sysfs entries while a device is
> > being added, by Kimberly Brown.
> >
> > 2. Update the Hyper-V mailing list to a new one created on
> > vger.kernel.org, by Haiyang Zhang.
> >
> > - ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Haiyang Zhang (1):
> >       MAINTAINERS: Change mailing list for Hyper-V CORE AND DRIVERS
> >
> > Kimberly Brown (2):
> >       Drivers: hv: vmbus: Change server monitor_pages index to 0
> >       Drivers: hv: vmbus: Return -EINVAL if monitor_allocated not set
>
> I objected to this last patch when it was posted on the list.  The sysfs
> file should just not be present if the functionality is not there, no
> need to add the "-EINVAL" logic to it instead.
>
> Having a sysfs file that says it can be read, and then rejecting that
> read with an error is NOT ok.

Hm, I'm sorry but I didn't see an objection on the thread
(https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190122020759.GA4054@ubu-Virtual-Machine/)
which is why it was sent in like this.

Could you please point me to it so we can get the patch fixed up?

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Thanks,
Sasha