On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 05:15:14PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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
As I can't take it into -stable until it hits Linus's tree, I'll have to wait until then. Hopefully it hits there soon, I'll watch out for it. thanks for letting me know. greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
