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[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:25:36PM +0100, Dave Gordon wrote:
>> Updated version split into two. The first tidies up the _ring_prepare()
>> functions and removes the corner case where we might have had to wait
>> twice; the second is a temporary workaround to solve a kernel OOPS that
>> can occur if logical_ring_begin is called while the ringbuffer is not
>> mapped because there's no current request.
>> 
>> The latter will be superseded by the Anti-OLR patch series currently
>> in review. But this helps with GuC submission, which is better than
>> the execlist path at exposing the problematic case :(
>
> Maintainer broken record: Lack of changelog makes it hard to figure out
> what changed and which patches are the latest version. Even more so when
> trying to catch up from vacation ...

Is it time we adopted Greg's <formletter> approach with copy-pasted
snippets from [1]...? See [2] for an example.

BR,
Jani.


[1] https://github.com/gregkh/gregkh-linux/blob/master/forms/patch_bot
[2] http://mid.gmane.org/20150612153842.GA12274@kroah.com

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