From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757685Ab3BFW2D (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:28:03 -0500 Received: from mail-ia0-f171.google.com ([209.85.210.171]:38888 "EHLO mail-ia0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752775Ab3BFW2A (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:28:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:27:55 -0800 From: Tejun Heo To: Andrew Morton 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: <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130206142422.b2f8eac6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks. -- tejun