The patch titled Subject: fs/nilfs2/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fs-nilfs2-remove-unnecessary-new_valid_dev-check.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx> Subject: fs/nilfs2/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check new_valid_dev() always returns 1, so the !new_valid_dev() check is not needed. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/namei.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/nilfs2/namei.c~fs-nilfs2-remove-unnecessary-new_valid_dev-check fs/nilfs2/namei.c --- a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c~fs-nilfs2-remove-unnecessary-new_valid_dev-check +++ a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c @@ -120,9 +120,6 @@ nilfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct de struct nilfs_transaction_info ti; int err; - if (!new_valid_dev(rdev)) - return -EINVAL; - err = nilfs_transaction_begin(dir->i_sb, &ti, 1); if (err) return err; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html