From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: asm/bitops.h
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:48:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170316124808.065242d1018f91fa0c60b875@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170316190709.20364-1-joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com>
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:07:08 +0100 Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com> wrote:
> Replace void * cast with uintptr_t to do pointer arithmetic's
Why? The changelog doesn't describe whats wrong with the current code
and gives nobody any reason to apply the patch.
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+
And you think it should be backported! That makes it even more
important that the changelog contain a full description of the
end-user visible impact of the fix.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-16 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-16 19:07 Joakim Tjernlund
2017-03-16 19:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: Match bitops prototypes Joakim Tjernlund
2017-03-16 19:48 ` Andrew Morton
2017-03-16 19:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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