Oops, sorry, should've been PATCH v3..
The contents are right, just the subject line is off.
-Vishal
On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 19:52 -0700, Vishal Verma wrote:
> v3:
> - Add kernel-doc style comments to all exported functions in
> badblocks.c (James)
> - Make return values from badblocks functions consistent with
> themselves
> and the kernel style. Change the polarity of badblocks_set, and
> update
> all callers accordingly (James)
> - In gendisk, don't unconditionally allocate badblocks, export the
> initializer.
> This also allows the initializer to be a non-void return type, so
> that the
> badblocks user can act upon failures better (James)
>
>
> v2:
> - In badblocks_free, make 'page' NULL (patch 1)
> - Move the core badblocks code to a new .c file (patch 1) (Jens)
> - Fix a sizeof usage in disk_alloc_badblocks (patch 2) (Dan)
> - Since disk_alloc_badblocks can fail, check disk->bb for NULL in
> the
> genhd wrappers (patch 2) (Jeff)
> - Update the md conversion to also ise the badblocks init and free
> functions (patch 3)
> - Remove the BB_* macros from md.h as they are now in badblocks.h
> (patch 3)
>
> Patch 1 copies badblock management code into a header of its own,
> making it generally available. It follows common libraries of code
> such as linked lists, where anyone may embed a core data structure
> in another place, and use the provided accessor functions to
> manipulate the data.
>
> Patch 2 adds badblock tracking to gendisks (in preparation for use
> by NVDIMM devices).
>
> Patch 3 converts md over to use the new badblocks 'library'. I have
> done some pretty simple testing on this - created a raid 1 device,
> made sure the sysfs entries show up, and can be used to add and view
> badblocks. A closer look by the md folks would be nice here.
>
> Vishal Verma (3):
> badblocks: Add core badblock management code
> block: Add badblock management for gendisks
> md: convert to use the generic badblocks code
>
> block/Makefile | 2 +-
> block/badblocks.c | 576
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> block/genhd.c | 76 ++++++
> drivers/md/md.c | 516 ++-----------------------------------
> ----
> drivers/md/md.h | 40 +---
> include/linux/badblocks.h | 53 +++++
> include/linux/genhd.h | 7 +
> 7 files changed, 741 insertions(+), 529 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 block/badblocks.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/badblocks.h
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