From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
torvalds@osdl.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] Re: [patch 11/22] Fix block device symlink name
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:48:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060414194828.GA4921@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060414005729.GA11766@lst.de>
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:57:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:08:07PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> >
> > As noted further on the this file, some block devices have a / in their
> > name, so fix the "block:..." symlink name the same as the /sys/block name.
>
> shouldn't there be a common helper for both the symlink and the
> /sys/block name so erros like this don't happen again?
Yes, there probably should. If someone wants to create one, I'm sure
that it would be accepted into Linus's tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-14 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-04-13 23:06 ` [patch 00/22] -stable review Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:06 ` [patch 01/22] powerpc: iSeries needs slb_initialize to be called Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:06 ` [patch 02/22] powerpc: fix incorrect SA_ONSTACK behaviour for 64-bit processes Greg KH
2006-04-24 8:27 ` Laurent MEYER
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 03/22] MPBL0010 driver sysfs permissions wide open Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 04/22] isd200: limit to BLK_DEV_IDE Greg KH
2006-04-14 1:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-15 11:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 05/22] sky2: bad memory reference on dual port cards Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 06/22] NETFILTER: Fix fragmentation issues with bridge netfilter Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 07/22] m32r: security fix of {get, put}_user macros Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 08/22] m32r: Fix cpu_possible_map and cpu_present_map initialization for SMP kernel Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 09/22] fuse: fix oops in fuse_send_readpages() Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:07 ` [patch 10/22] Fix buddy list race that could lead to page lru list corruptions Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:08 ` [patch 11/22] Fix block device symlink name Greg KH
2006-04-14 0:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-14 19:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-04-13 23:08 ` [patch 12/22] ext3: Fix missed mutex unlock Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:08 ` [patch 13/22] edac_752x needs CONFIG_HOTPLUG Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:25 ` Dave Peterson
2006-04-13 23:44 ` Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:08 ` [patch 14/22] cciss: bug fix for crash when running hpacucli Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:08 ` [patch 15/22] alpha: SMP boot fixes Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:09 ` [patch 16/22] Fix utime(2) in the case that no times parameter was passed in Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:09 ` [patch 17/22] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limit Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:09 ` [patch 18/22] Incorrect signature sent on SMB Read Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:09 ` [patch 19/22] Fix suspend with traced tasks Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:09 ` [patch 20/22] USB: remove __init from usb_console_setup Greg KH
2006-04-13 23:09 ` [patch 21/22] fix non-leader exec under ptrace Greg KH
2006-04-14 18:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-04-13 23:09 ` [patch 22/22] atm: clip causes unregister hang Greg KH
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