Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:44:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.27-rc1: IP: iov_iter_advance+0x2e/0x90 |
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > So does this (hacky, ugly) patch fix it for you? > > You forgot "untested".
I'm trying to teach people to just take my patches for granted as being untested. I think there is more shock value when I actually claim one of my patches is actually _tested_, so I guess I'll just emphasize that part in case it ever happens (and ok, it did happen for the cpu_mask thing).
> And, yes, it helps.
Ok, I'll commit it as obvious, ugly as it may be. And hope that Nick or some other god of iov_iter will think about trying to make these things more reliable and easier to use.
Linus
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