From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751398Ab2LAA4M (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:56:12 -0500 Received: from scrye.com ([75.148.32.185]:37313 "EHLO mail.scrye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750897Ab2LAA4K (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:56:10 -0500 To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] v3.0.x: mtd: check partition count not partition array pointer From: Anthony Foiani Reply-To: Anthony Foiani X-Attribution: Tony References: <20121129213838.GA20660@kroah.com> <20121201003201.GA18885@kroah.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:56:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20121201003201.GA18885@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:32:01 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b31 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg -- Thanks for the very quick response. Greg KH writes: > This is an obvious one, it needs to be upstream first. > > Or if not, a whole lot of explaination saying that you know it > isn't, and why it isn't, and why it isn't applicable there, I thought that I did provide exactly this information, when I indicated that this function no longer even existed in upstream. The replacement in upstream was to fold this functionality into another function -- but I found that function much more complex and difficult to follow. So I went with the simple fix. > including agreement from the subsystem maintainers saying that they > agree with you. I also don't have that. I might post it to the mtd list, to see if they have any interest in either approving it as-is for 3.0 series, or doing the backport of the current code. Thanks again for your time. Tony