From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758078Ab3BFWdB (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:33:01 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54470 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755439Ab3BFWc5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:32:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:32:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Tomas Henzl Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/77] block: fix synchronization and limit check in blk_alloc_devt() Message-Id: <20130206143256.21a55902.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130206222755.GD2875@htj.dyndns.org> References: <1360179649-22465-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1360179649-22465-22-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20130206142422.b2f8eac6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20130206222755.GD2875@htj.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:27:55 -0800 Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Andrew. > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 02:24:22PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This gets all tangled up with > > http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/block-fix-ext_devt_idr-handling.patch, > > which appears to solve the same issue. > > > > What to do? > > Can you please drop 21 and 22? Everything else shouldn't be affected > and we can sort these out later. The actual deprecation patch is held > off for now anyway. hm, I could. Instead I merged your patch on top of Tomas's and marked Tomas's patch for -stable as well. Sound OK?