Hi Joe, On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 11:49:33AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 20:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > commit 7f032d6ef6154868a2a5d5f6b2c3f8587292196c upstream. > > > > The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused, > > will eventually be converted to void. > > Is this necessary? It doesn't seem so. > > This one seems an unlikely candidate to backport as > it effectively doesn't do anything but prepare for > seq_printf return value removal. > > Is that removal going to be backported too or is this > being patched to avoid some other backported patch's > desire to be applied without offsets? Hmmm sorry, I missed the comment on this one, it was picked because it makes it easier to apply "ipc/sem.c: fix complex_count vs. simple op race". This latter was picked as-is from Jiri's 3.12 tree so I preferred to avoid modifying it. I'll just mention it in the commit message. Thanks for notifying me. Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html