From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: use open_bdev_excl
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:16:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206211627.9683a9e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080207044513.GA4088@lst.de>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 05:45:13 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:31:01PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Use the proper helper to open a blockdevice by name for filesystem
> > use, this makes sure it's properly claimed (also added for open-by-number)
> > and gets rid of the struct file abuse.
> >
> > Tested by mounting a reiserfs filesystem with external journal.
>
> Folks, what do we do with this patch? It's been out for more than a
> month but didn't actually get picked up in any tree.
It's still sitting in the great pile of things I got sent over Christmas
and haven't looked at yet. It didn't look like a bugfix.
> I'd really like
> to see this going in soon.
How come?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 15:31 [PATCH] reiserfs: use open_bdev_excl Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-07 4:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-07 5:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-07 5:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-29 18:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-29 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-29 22:49 ` Edward Shishkin
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