Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:06:15 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] staging: lustre: remove IOC_LIBCFS_PING_TEST ioctl |
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 04:31:39AM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote: > On 2015/11/08, 09:34, "James Simmons" <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote: > > >The ioctl IOC_LIBCFS_PING_TEST has not been used in > >ages. The recent nidstring changes which moved all > >the nidstring operations from libcfs to the LNet > >layer but this ioctl code was still using an > >nidstring operation that was causing an circular > >dependency loop between libcfs and LNet: > > Hi Greg, > are you planning on pushing this patch to Linus for 4.4? It was resent > on 11/08 per your request on 11/07 but I don't see it in staging or > staging-next yet. Since it fixes the depmod dependency cycle for > allmodconfig builds on mainline it seems worthwhile to include into > 4.4-rc3 rather than waiting for 4.5.
No one told me it fixed a bug, let me see if it's still even needed...
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