Re: linux-next: missing merge fix for the access_once tree

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Hi Linus,

On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:12:22 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I have been carrying this merge fix patch for some time.  It should
> > have gone into the merge of the access_once tree.
> 
> No, you had a different tree that got merged into linux-next, that
> made it an error to do ACCESS_ONCE() on a structure.
> 
> The thing I merged didn't actually have that final commit, exactly so
> that things wouldn't break from missing conversions.
> 
> So that patch isn't wrong, but it also isn't exactly a required fix
> until the next merge window..

True, so "should" was a bit strong.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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