Re: [PATCH next] zram: __zram_reset_device() can be static

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On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:03:28PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:47:57AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >> Hi Fengguang,
> >
> > Please don't top-post.
> >
> >> Greg said he doesn't accept any z* friends patches in staging excpet
> >> plain bug fix and promotion patches until promotion is done.
> >
> > This is a bugfix, why shouldn't I take it?
> 
> I am really welcome if you accept the patch for zram.
> But I saw you said to Dan that you don't accept zsmalloc, zram and
> zcache patches
> any more unless the patch is obvious bug fix or for promoting it.
> So I am really confused about the criteria of bugfix you have thought
> because I thought
> Fengguang's patch is clean-up patch so I just meant to help you.
> I believe obvious bug fix is things to make trouble without it in real
> practice, NOT imagine as if stable_kernel_rules.txt said.

The patch fixed an obvious sparse warning, so I took it.  That falls
under my "no new features, bugfixes only" rule.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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