Acked: [Hardy-xen] SRU: Fix OMG how did this ever work (32bit)

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Jun 22 13:42:33 UTC 2011


On 06/22/2011 02:35 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:55:36PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>
>> Fix: This is a bit more than needed to fix the bug itself, but it will bring our
>> code more into a shape that resembles upstream (factually there is only a 2.6.18
>> upstream but that code did not do the double list access).
>
> The first patch looks fine, the second patch is just enormous.  I am not
> against making the code match upstream better as that vastly improves its
> maintainability going forward.  So perhaps we could split the second one
> out into one "Reorder the code to match upstream order -- no functional
> change" which I can then 'ignore' and one which fixes the actual bug.
>
> Obviously even with the larger change we are going to need to test,
> test, test but I believe you have this in hand and have a test case.
>
> -apw
>

I'm inclined to just apply it since the ultimate commit is a patch of a 
patch and is unreadable anyways. And as Andy says; test, test, test.

Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

smb - _you_ get to apply this one.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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