On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 11:04 -0700, Cong Wang wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa > >> > I definitely don't have a problem cleaning this up in net-next. I wanted >> > a minimal patch for stable because I didn't check history where and when >> > additional users of dev_get_by_flags_rcu were removed. >> >> `git grep` should show you we only have one caller. Apparently we don't >> care about any out-of-tree module. > > Point is : you did not check if some stable versions had more callers. > > Its very nice you checked current version, but it is not enough for a > stable candidate. That is what we do when backporting patches, I can do that if David asks me to backport it, but you know for netdev that is David's work. (I am not saying I don't want to help him, I just want to point out the fact. I am very pleased to help David for stable backports as long as he asks) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe trinity" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
