On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:22:21 +0300, Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jens Hi > > What do you intend to do with these fixes? These are real bugs on devices > shipped for a while now. I think they need to go into current 3.17-rcX Kernel. > > If not then lets please put them in for-next > [This set is for linux-block.git/for-next, tell me if you need one ontop > of for-linus] > It looks like I've missed your context. Please elaborate your use-case > [v2] > Based on Jens's linux-next [30e996a] incorporating the brd patch by Dmitry Monakhov. > Dmitry has introduced a new part_show parameter, this parameter is now > removed In which commit or kernel-tree this parameter was removed? > and we always "part_show=1". > Scripts that did part_show=1 will work just the same but will display a > message in logs. This is harmless. (And scripts can be modified to > remove this parameter) Which script are you talking about? Why you want use it? > > [v1] > Current situation is that any attempt to use partitions with brd device would > create the partition but then any use will trash the data. > > See: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg76737.html > > So these patches fixes up all the problems we saw with the code, but not sacrificing > any of the old fixtures. See [patch 4/5] for more explanations. > > list of patches: > [PATCH 1/5] axonram: Fix bug in direct_access > [PATCH 2/5] Change direct_access calling convention > > These are Matthew's patches from the DAX series which fixes the interface to > direct_access taking into account the partition offset. It must be applied > here for partitions to work with direct_access() API. > > [PATCH 3/5] brd: Add getgeo to block ops > > This one is needed by fdisk, otherwise it just asks extra questions > > [PATCH 4/5] brd: Fix all partitions BUGs > [PATCH 5/5] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment > > Thanks > Boaz > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
