Re: [v2 PATCH for-4.4 07/16] Drivers: hv: get rid of redundant messagecount in create_gpadl_header()

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Hi Greg,


On 19 April 2017 at 18:28, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 08:19:07PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 16 April 2017 at 13:30, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Why should this go into a stable kernel? What does it fix?
>> >
>> You're right; it doesn't need to get into stable kernel; my bad. Could
>> you please drop it from your queue?
>
> Now dropped, but now the other hv patches don't apply.  Can you try to
> figure out what is really needed for the hv patches in this series, if
> any?

So this patch just changed how list_* were getting used, by
initializing the list header unconditionally. After dropping this, the
immediately following patch needed a little reorganising. The rest of
the patches will apply as-is, but for easy applicaiton, I'll just send
out all the hv patches as a series right now.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Best,
Sumit.



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