Hello, Greg. On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:59:22PM +0900, Greg KH wrote: > 2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > ------------------ > devices > > From: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> > > commit d4dc210f69bcb0b4bef5a83b1c323817be89bad1 upstream. > > Disk event code automatically blocks events on excl write. This is > primarily to avoid issuing polling commands while burning is in > progress. This behavior doesn't fit other types of devices with > removeable media where polling commands don't have adverse side > effects and door locking usually doesn't exist. > > This patch introduces new genhd flag which controls the auto-blocking > behavior and uses it to enable auto-blocking only on optical devices. > > Note for stable: 2.6.38 and later only
This one should be accompanied by the following commit which is currently in Jens' tree and will soon be pulled into Linus' tree. Sorry about the fuss. ->check_events() update turned out to be much more fragile than I originally expected. :( commit 4c49ff3fe128ca68dabd07537415c419ad7f82f9 Author: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Date: Wed Jun 1 08:27:41 2011 +0200 block: blkdev_get() should access ->bd_disk only after success Thank you. -- tejun _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
