On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:15:56AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2011-06-01 10:58, Greg KH wrote: > > 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. > > It'll go out in the next few days. The above commit also references this > patch, so you should have proper notification when it goes in.
Did it go in? I see commit 0f48f2600911d5de6393829e4a9986d4075558b3 which looks like it might have been it, right? Or do I need something else for .39-stable? confused, greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
