On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 04:39:52PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 08:26:22AM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >>
> >>     mtd: return badblockbits back
> >>
> >> to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at:
> >>     
> >> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary
> >
> > And I've dropped it as it causes the following build error:
> > drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c: In function ‘nand_get_flash_type’:
> > drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c:2704:6: error: ‘struct nand_chip’ has no 
> > member named ‘badblockbits’
> 
> I believe the regression for which this patch was written appears in
> the following mainline major revision numbers:
> 2.6.36
> 2.6.37
> 2.6.38
> 2.6.39
> 
> Right now, I see that the fix ("mtd: return badblockbits back") has
> been applied to the 2.6.38-stable and 2.6.39-stable trees, but it
> probably should be applied to 2.6.37-stable and 2.6.36-stable as well.
> It definitely should *not* be applied to 2.6.35 or earlier (as you
> found it with the build error).

Ok, but there is no .36 or .37-stable kernel trees, so there's nothing
to apply them to :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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