[dm-devel] Re: linux-next: Tree for August 27

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Fri Aug 29 08:36:42 UTC 2008


Hi Bart,

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:05:16 +0200 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 29 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] block: fix part0 handling in bdget_disk() / blk_lookup_devt()
> > 
> > part0 is a "special" partition and doesn't need to have capacity set - this
> > fixes regression caused by "block: move __dev from disk to part0" commit.
> > 
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe at oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > Jens, please integrate it into the original commit if feasible.
> 
> Thanks Bart, I folded it into the original commit.

And applied to today's linux-next.

> > On the somehow related topic - CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT which is
> > introduced by commit 3e5ba59bbab878f60b8b87004ac55a464bddc819 ("block:
> > implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT") is way too intrusive to be
> > enabled by default if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is set as it easily results
> > in no longer bootable systems (+ help entry for the new option says
> > "Say N if you are unsure.").
> > 
> > Tejun/Jens: please consider changing this.
> 
> I have change the default to 'n' for now.

I will do this for today as well.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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