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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Cc: Oliver Pinter <pinter.oliver.villany@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, w@1wt.eu,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, 2.6.26.2-rc1] posix timers: release_posix_timer: kill the bogus put_task_struct(->it_process)
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:37:55 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080803103755.GA79@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0808030006040.2294@titan.stealer.net>

On 08/03, Sven Wegener wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> 
> > It is an RFC for sending this patch for stable, when this patch needed, then send ACK and CC stable,
> > if not then send NAK.
> 
> I'd say big NAK. Have you ever looked at the full commit message and patch 
> at all? It says "release_posix_timer() can't be called with ->it_process 
> != NULL.". Point. The rest is the explanation why this can't happen. And 
> looking at the patch, we see that it just removes code that actually never 
> gets executed under the mentioned preconditions. It's a pure cleanup patch 
> and doesn't qualify for -stable. Same goes for the other posix timer patch 
> you mailed out.

I agree. Perhaps the changelog was badly written...

These 2 patches are just cleanups which remove the dead code,
this is not the -stable material.

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-03 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-02 21:45 Oliver Pinter
2008-08-02 21:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-02 22:27 ` Sven Wegener
2008-08-03 10:37   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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