Re: [stable] patch sparc64-make-prom-entry-spinlock-nmi-safe.patchadded to 2.6.32-stable tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 30 2010 - 16:32:31 EST


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:07:42PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> This converted the raw_spinlock usage which is used in the upstream patch but
> not available in 2.6.32 to normal spinlock usage. Should it get annotated to
> document that?

why, you obviously figured that out :)

It's not the normal thing to do for backports otherwise we would be here
all day long...

thanks,

greg k-h
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