Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:09:35 -0800 | From | Brian Norris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 01/46] mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device() |
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 07:24:46PM +0000, Karl Beldan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Brian Norris > <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:15:31PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:43:56 +0200 > >> Daniel Walter <dwalter@sigma-star.at> wrote: > >> > >> > From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> > >> > > >> > If the master device has callbacks for _get/put_device() > >> > and this MTD has slaves a get_mtd_device() call on paritions > >> > will never issue the registered callbacks. > >> > Fix this by propagating _get/put_device() down. > >> > >> Brian, can we have this one queued for 4.9? I can't take it in my tree > >> if you want, but it's probably better if it's in the mtd tree. > > > > Applied this patch to l2-mtd.git > > > > I think this should also go into -stable.
Why? Do you have real use cases that are broken by this? I understand this is a problem, but I'm curious on how this satisfies the stable rules.
Also, note that this isn't a regression; it's been broken forever and apparently no one noticed. IMO that raises the bar a bit (but not impossibly so) for -stable.
Anyway, if we decide to do this, you'll also want to include the git hash and applicable kernel versions, per Option 2 [1].
Brian
[1] Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
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