From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
James Bottomley <JBottomley@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [23/27] kernel.h: add printk_ratelimited and pr_<level>_rl
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:43:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124164316.GA26126@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327422950.5400.40.camel@deadeye>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:35:50PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:46 +0200, Phil Carmody wrote:
> > On 23/01/12 15:41 -0800, ext Greg KH wrote:
> > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > This looks like an added feature with no users in .32 - does it really
> > belong in a stable tree?
> > (But to be explicit, I have no issue with its contents at all.)
>
> It's required for commit 0bfc96cb77224736dfa35c3c555d37b3646ef35e
> ('block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices'), though
> that hasn't actually been included in this series. I think that's
> because there is still ongoing discussion of which error codes need to
> be used.
That is exactly right.
Phil, thanks for reviewing, you are correct that this is a new
"feature", but it is needed for this other patch that people are still
arguing over :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 23:42 [00/27] 2.6.32.55-longterm review Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [01/27] ext4: fix undefined behavior in ext4_fill_flex_info() Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [02/27] ALSA: snd-usb-us122l: Delete calls to preempt_disable Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [03/27] ALSA: ice1724 - Check for ac97 to avoid kernel oops Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [04/27] ALSA: hda - Return the error from get_wcaps_type() for invalid NIDs Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [05/27] HID: bump maximum global item tag report size to 96 bytes Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [06/27] UBI: fix use-after-free on error path Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [07/27] PCI: Fix PCI_EXP_TYPE_RC_EC value Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [08/27] PCI: msi: Disable msi interrupts when we initialize a pci device Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [09/27] xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [10/27] ima: free duplicate measurement memory Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [11/27] PNP: work around Dell 1536/1546 BIOS MMCONFIG bug that breaks USB Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [12/27] x86: Fix mmap random address range Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:40 ` [13/27] UBI: fix nameless volumes handling Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [14/27] i2c: Fix error value returned by several bus drivers Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [15/27] [media] V4L/DVB: v4l2-ioctl: integer overflow in video_usercopy() Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [16/27] svcrpc: fix double-free on shutdown of nfsd after changing pool mode Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [17/27] svcrpc: destroy server sockets all at once Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [18/27] nfsd: Fix oops when parsing a 0 length export Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [19/27] USB: cdc-wdm: fix misuse of logical operation in place of bitop Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [20/27] [S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [21/27] USB: Fix bad dma problem on WDM device disconnect Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [22/27] block: add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [23/27] kernel.h: add printk_ratelimited and pr_<level>_rl Greg KH
2012-01-24 14:46 ` Phil Carmody
2012-01-24 16:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-01-24 16:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [24/27] ALSA: HDA: Fix internal microphone on Dell Studio 16 XPS 1645 Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [25/27] [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in slave_destroy Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [26/27] score: fix off-by-one index into syscall table Greg KH
2012-01-23 23:41 ` [27/27] kprobes: initialize before using a hlist Greg KH
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