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    SubjectRe: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final
    On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:16:55AM -0500, Bruce Fields wrote:
    > (Argh, sorry, with the right stable address cc'd this time I hope.)
    >
    > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 03:10:04PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
    > > FWIW, not taking ->i_lock there definitely looks like a good thing. As for
    > > 64bit ->i_ino itself... Looks like the main problem is the shitload of
    > > printks - the actual uses of ->i_ino are fine, but these suckers create
    > > a lot of noise. So for now I'm going with Bruce's variant; 64bit i_ino
    > > doesn't look too bad (even on i386, actually), but it'll have to wait
    > > until 3.14. Too noisy and late in this cycle...
    >
    > I believe we also want that in stable?
    >
    > 950ee9566a5b6cc45d15f5fe044bab4f1e8b62cb "exportfs: fix 32-bit nfsd
    > handling of 64-bit inode numbers"

    It breaks the build in 3.12 and others so if it is needed, please
    provide a backport that works properly to stable@vger.kernel.org.

    thanks,

    greg k-h


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