From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: use open_bdev_excl Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:16:27 -0800 Message-ID: <20080206211627.9683a9e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20071226153101.GA2428@lst.de> <20080207044513.GA4088@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080207044513.GA4088@lst.de> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 05:45:13 +0100 Christoph Hellwig 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?