On 09/09/2014 06:10 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 09/01/2014 01:15 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> On 08/27/2014 06:22 PM, Boaz Harrosh 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. >>> >> >> Jens hi >> >> I have seen that the brd patch went into rc3. >> >> I should insist then, that these patches go into this rc cycle ASAP. >> For one they fix real *hard* unexpected bugs with brd that make it trash data. >> >> But specially because the patch to brd that just went into Kernel introduces >> a wrong module parameter "show_part" which must be removed. If we release a Kernel >> with it, it will be pain, we will need to deprecate it which is long and annoying >> procedure. It is wrong because it must be always on. Pleas see below >> >> This patchset is based on what just went into Kernel. >> Also on git here: git://git.open-osd.org/pmem.git brd-partitions branch >> >> [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://git.open-osd.org/gitweb.cgi?p%3Dpmem.git%3Ba%3Dshortlog%3Bh%3Drefs/heads/brd-partitions&k=ZVNjlDMF0FElm4dQtryO4A%3D%3D%0A&r=3JMVyziIyZtZ5cv9eWNLwQ%3D%3D%0A&m=XOvuGmlhiuRy6LRMabkkeXBBXOBMB9BXeBpwsjyR98Y%3D%0A&s=c5919437c1a82b2bf63f9ca95ae6d96ebf2f0fbc2ed85bb6766df0add4af40b3] >> >> Thanks >> Boaz >> > <> >>> list of patches: >>> [PATCH 1/5] axonram: Fix bug in direct_access >>> [PATCH 2/5] Change direct_access calling convention > <> >>> [PATCH 3/5] brd: Add getgeo to block ops > <> >>> [PATCH 4/5] brd: Fix all partitions BUGs >>> [PATCH 5/5] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment > > Ping Jens? > > Please tell me what you want to do with these patches. They must go into this Kernel > cycle before brd is released with wrong user-mode visible nub > > If you want you can drop the [PATCH 3/5] which is not important and can go in next > cycle, but the others are real BUG fixes. I will drop the 3/5 patch (do that one separately) and queue up and test. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
