From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751762AbWHTWu4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:50:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751763AbWHTWu4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:50:56 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:35565 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751762AbWHTWuz (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:50:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop.c: kernel_thread() retval check From: Alan Cox To: Solar Designer Cc: Willy Tarreau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060820223442.GA21960@openwall.com> References: <20060819234629.GA16814@openwall.com> <1156097717.4051.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060820223442.GA21960@openwall.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:11:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1156115468.4051.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 02:34 +0400, ysgrifennodd Solar Designer: > Alan, > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:15:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Acked-by: Alan Cox > > Thanks. > > > but should go into 2.6-mm and be tested in 2.6-mm before 2.4 backport. > > Unfortunately, I do not intend to prepare/test/submit a revision of the > patch for 2.6-mm, and I might only work on a 2.6 patch in a few months > from now. Unless someone else takes care of this, the fix is likely to > get dropped on the floor. > > Do you really think that getting this fix into 2.4 should be delayed > like that? I have no problem with it going into 2.4. Someone should forward port it - but there should be plenty of people on the lists to do that.