Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] media: usb: pwc: Don't use coherent DMA buffers ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) s=20161025; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; where the problem is that the "sender" field is included in the...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 0/6] Not restarting for due to signals.
Linus Torvalds writes: On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:53 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: [...] non-controversial I am not posting them again. Other than the one nit I just replied...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH v5 6/6] signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) This looks odd and unnecessary. This looks odd and unnecessary. Why isn't this just a Why isn't this just a sigdelsetmask(signal, SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK);...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH] vfs: fix statfs64() returning impossible EOVERFLOW for ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] So the whole put_compat_statfs64() thing should be Ack, I'm ok with this simplification. Ack, I'm ok with this simplification.[...] I'm somewhat tempted to...
View ArticleRe: aio poll V22 (aka 2.0)
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Looking at the patches, this is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch, is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch, It adds refcounting to...
View ArticleLinux 4.18-rc8
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Wysocki (1): ACPI / LPSS: Avoid PM quirks on suspend and resume from hibernation Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki (1): brcmfmac: fix regression in parsing NVRAM for multiple...
View ArticleRe: [GIT] Networking
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] gruops, from Dmitry Safonov. This one is written kind of stupidly. This one is written kind of stupidly. The code went from the original The code went from...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 3/7] x86/mm/init: pass unconverted symbol addresses to ...
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It does not follow page tables at all. follow page tables at all. And on 32-bit, it literally ends up doing (see __phys_addr_nodebug()) a simple And on 32-bit, it...
View ArticleRe: LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I wonder why I didn't get a compiler warning for it... why I didn't get a compiler warning for it... [ Goes off and looks ] [ Goes off and looks ] Oh, because the...
View ArticleRe: [dm-devel] LVM snapshot broke between 4.14 and 4.16
Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Instead, what I suggest we do is: Case 1: if a user program notice that a new kernel breaks something, then (a) report it to kernel people with a test-case (b) if you...
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