Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: re-export lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:52:19AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:47:02AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 01:27:05PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > > Being over zealous in removing unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs two functions
> > > lustre_swab_[lmv|lov]_mds_md exports were removed. They need to be
> > > exported so this patch restores those EXPORT_SYMBOLS. Same mistake
> > > was done when porting to the upstream client.
> > 
> > How did our build testing not catch this?  What needs these exports?  Is
> > it any in-kernel code?
> > 
> > confused,
> 
> It did catch it...

It did?  Works here for me, and I didn't see an error report anywhere...

> James, every patch has to be buildable (bisectable) so the original
> patch is never going to be merged.

What is the "original" patch here?

totally confused,

greg k-h