Re: [stable] [patch] brd: fix ramdisk regression

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* Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > For me this change isn't problematic. Yes, it did broken my software and 
> > yes, I could fix my software but since its working only on specific 
> > kernels (precompiled by me) I've chosen to revert kernel change instead 
> > to get old behaviour.
> 
> Ah, it only affects 2.6.25.x and no earlier -stable kernels.  Not so bad.
> 
> Greg, Chris?  Thoughts?

I don't know why it was suppressed to begin with.  Seems /proc/partitions
parsers already need to deal w/ arbitrary number and type of block
devices, so is it really a regression (it was also just removed from nbd)?

thanks,
-chris
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