Re: [GIT] Networking
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:37 PM David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: [...] Fixes keep trickling in: Pulled. Pulled. Btw, on an unrelated issue: I see that...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) That commit does look like the obviously right thing to do, and our old behavior was obviously wrong. our old behavior was obviously wrong. At the same time, we really...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:39 PM WGH <wgh@torlan.ru> wrote: [...]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900442 Yeah, it does sound like we should fix this issue....
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) We fix tens of bugs every single day, thinking that "fixing a bug" means that we can break something is simply NOT TRUE. we can break something is simply NOT TRUE. So...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I was hoping we'd be able to avoid that, partly because the commit looks fine, but partly because it also doesn't revert cleanly. partly because it also doesn't revert...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) The kernel has a simple rule: no user regressions. The kernel has a simple rule: no user regressions. Yes, we've had to break that rule very occasionally - when the...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 12:06 PM Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote: [...] longer pull from me. No. I'm *very* unhappy about how you seem to think that Zdenek's...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Turn the "you did a write request on a RO disk" into a WARN_ON_ONCE() instead of a hard error. error. Something like the attached patch. Something like the attached...
View ArticleRe: [dm-devel] LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's meant for things like CD-ROM devices, or for a floppy device when you notice that the controller reports that the floppy itself is physically write-protected....
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Yeah, it was specious. So I'll apologize for the strong words, and I'll just say - not excuse, but explanation - that this is the *ONE* thing that continues to drive me...
View ArticleRe: [dm-devel] LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Instead, what I suggest we do is: Case 1: if a user program notice that a new kernel breaks something, then (a) report it to kernel people with a test-case (b) if you...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I wonder why I didn't get a compiler warning for it... why I didn't get a compiler warning for it... [ Goes off and looks ] [ Goes off and looks ] Oh, because the...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 3/7] x86/mm/init: pass unconverted symbol addresses to ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It does not follow page tables at all. follow page tables at all. And on 32-bit, it literally ends up doing (see __phys_addr_nodebug()) a simple And on 32-bit, it...
View ArticleRe: [GIT] Networking
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] gruops, from Dmitry Safonov. This one is written kind of stupidly. This one is written kind of stupidly. The code went from the original The code went from...
View ArticleLinux 4.18-rc8
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Wysocki (1): ACPI / LPSS: Avoid PM quirks on suspend and resume from hibernation Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki (1): brcmfmac: fix regression in parsing NVRAM for multiple...
View ArticleRe: aio poll V22 (aka 2.0)
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Looking at the patches, this is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch, is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch, It adds refcounting to...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] vfs: fix statfs64() returning impossible EOVERFLOW for ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] So the whole put_compat_statfs64() thing should be Ack, I'm ok with this simplification. Ack, I'm ok with this simplification.[...] I'm somewhat tempted to...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) This looks odd and unnecessary. This looks odd and unnecessary. Why isn't this just a Why isn't this just a sigdelsetmask(signal, SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK);...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 0/6] Not restarting for due to signals.
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:53 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: [...] non-controversial I am not posting them again. Other than the one nit I just replied...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v4 0/2] media: usb: pwc: Don't use coherent DMA buffers ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) s=20161025; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; where the problem is that the "sender" field is included in the...
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