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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/14] mm/hmm: fix header file if/else/endif maze
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On 03/16/2018 02:35 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:18:02 -0400 Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 02:09:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:14:07 -0400 jglisse@redhat.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>> The #if/#else/#endif for IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HMM) were wrong.
>>>
>>> "were wrong" is not a sufficient explanation of the problem, especially
>>> if we're requesting a -stable backport. Please fully describe the
>>> effects of a bug when fixing it?
>>
>> Build issue (compilation failure) if you have multiple includes of
>> hmm.h through different headers is the most obvious issue. So it
>> will be very obvious with any big driver that include the file in
>> different headers.
>
> That doesn't seem to warrant a -stable backport? The developer of such
> a driver will simply fix the headers?

Right. For this patch, I would strongly request a -stable backport. It's
really going to cause problems if anyone tries to use -stable with HMM,
without this fix.

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

>
>> I can respin with that. Sorry again for not being more explanatory
>> it is always hard for me to figure what is not obvious to others.
>
> I updated the changelog, no respin needed.
>

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