- mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     mm: bdi: use MAJOR:MINOR in /sys/class/bdi
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3.patch

This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs.patch

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: mm: bdi: use MAJOR:MINOR in /sys/class/bdi
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

Uniformly use MAJOR:MINOR in /sys/class/bdi/ for both block devices
and non-block device backed filesystems: FUSE and NFS.

Add symlink for block devices:

    /sys/block/<name>/bdi -> /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi |   14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff -puN Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi~mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi~mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3
+++ a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
@@ -6,17 +6,13 @@ Description:
 Provide a place in sysfs for the backing_dev_info object.
 This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.
 
-The <bdi> identifyer can take the following forms:
+The <bdi> identifier can be either of the following:
 
-blk-NAME
+MAJOR:MINOR
 
-	Block devices, NAME is 'sda', 'loop0', etc...
-
-FSTYPE-MAJOR:MINOR
-
-	Non-block device backed filesystems which provide their own
-	BDI, such as NFS and FUSE.  MAJOR:MINOR is the value of st_dev
-	for files on this filesystem.
+	Device number for block devices, or value of st_dev on
+	non-block filesystems which provide their own BDI, such as NFS
+	and FUSE.
 
 default
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are

origin.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-4.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-ia64-fix.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-nfs.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-nfs-fix.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-fuse.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-fuse-fix.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-minimum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-maximum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-maximum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit-fix.patch
mm-bdi-move-statistics-to-debugfs.patch
mm-bdi-add-separate-writeback-accounting-capability.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi_writeout_inc.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi_writeout_inc-fix.patch
mm-add-nr_writeback_temp-counter.patch
mm-add-nr_writeback_temp-counter-fix.patch
mm-document-missing-fields-for-proc-meminfo.patch
fuse-support-writable-mmap.patch
fuse-support-writable-mmap-fix.patch
fuse-clean-up-setting-i_size-in-write.patch
fuse-implement-perform_write.patch
fuse-update-file-size-on-short-read.patch
fuse-update-file-size-on-short-read-fix.patch
fuse-fix-max-i-o-size-calculation.patch
fuse-fix-node-id-type.patch
fuse-fix-race-in-llseek.patch
fuse-fix-race-in-llseek-fix.patch
fuse-fix-sparse-warnings.patch

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