On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 07:24:46PM +0000, Karl Beldan wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Brian Norris >> <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:15:31PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote: >> >> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:43:56 +0200 >> >> Daniel Walter <dwalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> > From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> >> >> > >> >> > If the master device has callbacks for _get/put_device() >> >> > and this MTD has slaves a get_mtd_device() call on paritions >> >> > will never issue the registered callbacks. >> >> > Fix this by propagating _get/put_device() down. >> >> >> >> Brian, can we have this one queued for 4.9? I can't take it in my tree >> >> if you want, but it's probably better if it's in the mtd tree. >> > >> > Applied this patch to l2-mtd.git >> > >> >> I think this should also go into -stable. > > Why? Do you have real use cases that are broken by this? I understand I do, some code adding partitions on a gluebi master. > this is a problem, but I'm curious on how this satisfies the stable > rules. > > Also, note that this isn't a regression; it's been broken forever and > apparently no one noticed. IMO that raises the bar a bit (but not > impossibly so) for -stable. > I just encountered the bug yesterday and yes it is obvious it has been broken forever. I don't have strong opinion about these things so no worries. Karl > Anyway, if we decide to do this, you'll also want to include the git > hash and applicable kernel versions, per Option 2 [1]. > > Brian > > [1] Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html