Re: [PATCH] Fix Bug 10504 - losetup possible circular locking

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 05:49:00 EST


On Thu, Mar 26 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:00:32 Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > > Hi Jens
> > >
> > > Did you get to look at this? Can you ACK/NACK this one?
> >
> > It looks fine, I have applied it.
> >
>
> Thanks. But it looks like, the patch I quoted in the changelog had the "---"
> delimiter, which made you commit without the full changelog and signed-off.
> Sorry for that mistake.

That was actually done on purpose, I wanted the whole thing there! It
was a lot more useful than the short summary. Never be afraid to write
exhaustive changelogs, I even put the test app in there for some cases
when that makes sense.

--
Jens Axboe

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