On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:11:50AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:57:52 +1000 Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref]
wrote:

quoted

Hi Bruce,

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:03:11 -0400 "J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: NeilBrown <redacted>

The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <redacted>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <redacted>
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I don't normally have to deal with this kind of cross-architecture
patch; is this the right etiquette for it?

It turns out (with hindsight) that my reaction to this patch should have
been:

If you haven't built this on all architectures (an noone expects you to
actually do that), then it should spend a day or two in linux-next before
being sent to Linus.

Hi Stephen,
 Thanks for your help in sorting this out.  I have no idea how I missed those
 few nfsservctl references but I clearly did and you and -next have proved
 valuable yet again.

 And really *everything* should spend a few days in linux-next before going
 to Linus.  We all know that but it sometimes seem hard to *do* that ....
 until we have learnt the hard way a couple of times :-(

Yes, sorry, I'll know not to skip -next, next time....

(My excuse: I've been advertising to -next only stuff that I've done
with and committed, and this was something I wasn't even sure I should
take.

But I could have either mailed it out labelled as [RFC], or stuck it in
a throwaway branch to merge into my -next branch.)

Apologies again, and thanks for dealing with it so promptly.

--b.
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