From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pg0-x244.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c05::244]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.85_2 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1cHJAG-0004OH-Rn for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:40:50 +0000 Received: by mail-pg0-x244.google.com with SMTP id x23so3907439pgx.3 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:40:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:40:25 -0800 From: Brian Norris To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Karl Beldan , Boris Brezillon , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , David Woodhouse , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Walter , Stable Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/46] mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device() Message-ID: <20161214234025.GA24990@google.com> References: <984fd8eb53b742bd46e7b42605ae4e0ceaf5ba08.1474450295.git.dwalter@sigma-star.at> <20160921121531.7786ee9b@bbrezillon> <20160928201611.GB142302@google.com> <20161214210935.GA135941@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:12:42PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On 14.12.2016 22:09, Brian Norris wrote: > > Also, note that this isn't a regression; it's been broken forever and > > apparently no one noticed. IMO that raises the bar a bit (but not > > impossibly so) for -stable. > > Yes. AFAICT you can only trigger it using my "new" nandsim > which is not mainline so far. Ah, OK. So the only current _{get,put}_device() implementor in mainline is gluebi, so far. And it's OK for now to just have the master device be refcounted, and just rely on the partitions being removed before the master, right? In that case, no, this shouldn't go to -stable. Brian