Re: Patch "staging: lustre: mdc: Make IT_OPEN take lookup bits lock" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:10:19PM +0000, Patrick Farrell wrote:
> Greg et al.,
> 
> 
> Can someone copied here say why this was pushed to stable?  When I wrote the
> patch, my impression was the code was wrong but it didn't cause any problems.
>  I thought this was basically cleanup.  If someone found a problem associated
> with this patch, I'd be curious to hear.

I thought it was needed, based on the patch and the fixes: field.  But
you are right, it's not really necessary, so I'll go drop it from the
queue.  Thanks for noticing this and letting me know.

greg k-h



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