On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:38:42AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 09:20:10AM +0900, [email protected] wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > 
> > >     ARM: 7365/1: drop unused parameter from flush_cache_user_range
> > > 
> > > to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
> > >     
> > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > The filename of the patch is:
> > >      arm-7365-1-drop-unused-parameter-from-flush_cache_user_range.patch
> > > and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
> > > 
> > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> > I'm pretty sure the patch won't hurt, but I doubt if it's worth to
> > include it in stable because it's only a cosmetic change. The best
> > argument I see is, that it might make backporting of other patches
> > easier. I didn't check, but I'd be surprised if there were a new
> > caller?!
> 
> Right, that's exactly why its been included.  It's cosmetic but required
> for another patch which _does_ need to be in stable.  And I don't think
> there's any value to reworking that patch for stable kernels when we can
> just have this cosmetic one in place.

I agree, this patch is fine to accept because of this.  Uwe, thanks for
reviewing.

greg k-h
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