From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753837AbYHYO6w (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:58:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753472AbYHYO6o (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:58:44 -0400 Received: from [93.163.65.50] ([93.163.65.50]:2899 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753470AbYHYO6o (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:58:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:58:41 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Greg KH Cc: Tejun Heo , Abdel Benamrouche , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 1/3 blk-for-2.6.28] block: misc fixes and improvements Message-ID: <20080825145840.GI20055@kernel.dk> References: <1219655740-11672-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20080825144714.GA20813@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080825144714.GA20813@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 25 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:15:35PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This patchset contains the following five patches containing misc > > fixes and improvements. > > > > 0001-block-fix-partition-info-printouts.patch > > 0002-block-don-t-grab-block_class_lock-unnecessarily.patch > > 0003-block-use-class_dev_iterator-instead-of-class_for_e.patch > > 0004-block-allow-deleting-zero-length-partition.patch > > 0005-block-update-add_partition-error-handling.patch > > > > Recent block_class iteration updates 5c6f35c5..27f3025 introduced a > > few bugs and trivial user visible behavior change. 0001-0003 update > > those issues and simplify related code using new class iterator. > > The bugs should now be fixed in Linus's tree due to a fix from Kay, > right? > > The user visable behavior change, I missed that, sorry, that is a > regression, do you think it's a big deal to fix in 2.6.27? > > > 0004 fixes deletion of zero sized partitions. > > > > d805dda4 tried to fix error handling path in add_partition() but had a > > few problems. 0005 fixes those and moves busy partition check into > > add_partition(). > > > > This patchset is against > > > > blk-for-2.6.28 (9abd7c437c02e7448fb1d2d3cfc0b9c1ab77cf2d) > > + [1] klist-dont-iterate-over-deleted-entries > > + [2] use-klist-for-class-device-list-and-implement-iterator > > > > and available in the following git tree. > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=block-misc-fixes > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git block-misc-fixes > > > > with the following combined diffstat > > I have no problem taking all of these patches as I did this original > work and don't want to burden Jens with this. Also, I'd like to work > off of the klist changes and class changes as that can be used in other > work that I want to do in the driver core. > > Jens any objection to me taking them? Do you also have changes in this > area that this needs to be merged with? It's actually easier for me to include them. Apart from a potential clash in linux-next there, there shouldn't be any problem in that. -- Jens Axboe