The patch titled Subject: aoe: describe the behavior of the "err" character device has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was aoe-describe-the-behavior-of-the-err-character-device.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: aoe: describe the behavior of the "err" character device Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c~aoe-describe-the-behavior-of-the-err-character-device drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c~aoe-describe-the-behavior-of-the-err-character-device +++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ struct ErrMsg { }; static DEFINE_MUTEX(aoechr_mutex); + +/* A ring buffer of error messages, to be read through + * "/dev/etherd/err". When no messages are present, + * readers will block waiting for messages to appear. + */ static struct ErrMsg emsgs[NMSG]; static int emsgs_head_idx, emsgs_tail_idx; static struct completion emsgs_comp; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.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