The patch titled Subject: aoe: return real minor number for static minors has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is aoe-return-real-minor-number-for-static-minors.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: aoe: return real minor number for static minors The value returned by the static minor device number number allocator is the real minor number, so it must be multiplied by the supported number of partitions per aoedev. Without this fix the support for systems without udev is incomplete, and the few users of aoe on such systems will have surprising results when device nodes names do not match the AoE target. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c~aoe-return-real-minor-number-for-static-minors drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c~aoe-return-real-minor-number-for-static-minors +++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ minor_get_static(ulong *sysminor, ulong } else set_bit(n, used_minors); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&used_minors_lock, flags); - *sysminor = n; + *sysminor = n * AOE_PARTITIONS; out: return error; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch linux-compilerh-add-__must_hold-macro-for-functions-called-with-a-lock-held.patch documentation-sparsetxt-document-context-annotations-for-lock-checking.patch aoe-describe-the-behavior-of-the-err-character-device.patch aoe-print-warning-regarding-a-common-reason-for-dropped-transmits.patch aoe-print-warning-regarding-a-common-reason-for-dropped-transmits-v2.patch aoe-print-warning-regarding-a-common-reason-for-dropped-transmits-fix.patch aoe-update-cap-on-outstanding-commands-based-on-config-query-response.patch aoe-support-the-forgetting-flushing-of-a-user-specified-aoe-target.patch aoe-support-larger-i-o-requests-via-aoe_maxsectors-module-param.patch aoe-payload-sysfs-file-exports-per-aoe-command-data-transfer-size.patch aoe-cleanup-remove-unused-ata_scnt-function.patch aoe-whitespace-cleanup.patch aoe-update-driver-internal-version-number-to-60.patch aoe-provide-ata-identify-device-content-to-user-on-request.patch aoe-improve-network-congestion-handling.patch aoe-err-device-include-mac-addresses-for-unexpected-responses.patch aoe-manipulate-aoedev-network-stats-under-lock.patch aoe-use-high-resolution-rtts-with-fallback-to-low-res.patch aoe-commands-in-retransmit-queue-use-new-destination-on-failure.patch aoe-update-driver-internal-version-to-64.patch aoe-copy-fallback-timing-information-on-destination-failover.patch aoe-remove-vestigial-request-queue-allocation.patch aoe-increase-default-cap-on-outstanding-aoe-commands-in-the-network.patch aoe-cleanup-correct-comment-for-aoetgt-nout.patch aoe-remove-call-to-request-handler-from-i-o-completion.patch aoe-make-error-messages-more-specific-in-static-minor-allocation.patch aoe-initialize-sysminor-to-avoid-compiler-warning.patch aoe-return-real-minor-number-for-static-minors.patch -- 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