still nfs problems [Was: Linux 2.6.37-rc8]

[Trond Myklebust]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 20:25 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: 
> Hello Trond,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:20:35PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 18:08 +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: 
> > > On 01/10/2011 05:25 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:50 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: 
> > > >> Hi Trond,
> > > >>
> > > >> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 06:15:51PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > > >> It would be great if you could add a "8<" in the line above next time.
> > > >> Then git-am -c does the right thing (at least I think so).
> > > > 
> > > > Sorry. I wasn't aware of that particular idiom. So something like
> > > > 
> > > > 8<------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
> > > > Subject: .....
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > > 
> > > From "man git-mailinfo":
> > > "A line that mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and
> > > perforation (dash "-")"
> > > 
> > > BTW:
> > > Is this patch a candidate for stable?
> > 
> > Yes. I'm planning on sending it to the stable list after Linus merges it
> > into mainline.
> So there is another idiom for you:  just put
> 
> 	Cc: stable at kernel.org
> 
> in the S-o-b block and Greg will pick it off "automatically".  (Just in
> case you don't know, and if you do, maybe someone else learned
> something.)

I usually do this, but there is a slight problem with that approach:
Greg gets to do all the work of figuring out to which stable kernels
this particular patch applies. In this case, since we're only talking
about the 2.6.37 kernel, I prefer to use the mailing lists.

Cheers
  Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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