Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 00/11] UBD driver little cleanups for 2.6.19

From: Blaisorblade
Date: Sun Oct 29 2006 - 15:23:58 EST


On Sunday 29 October 2006 21:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:17:23 +0100
>
> "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Many cleanups for the UBD driver; these are mostly microfixes, I was
> > waiting to finish and reorder also locking fixes (the code works, it is
> > only to resplit, reproof-read and changelogs must be written) but I
> > decided to send these ones for now. The rest will maybe be merged for
> > 2.6.20.

> None of this really looks like -rc3 material. Why do you think it's
> serious enough to justify late inclusion?

> I'm not particularly fussed about UBD though - if you and Jeff particularly
> want this lot in 2.6.19 then the world won't end.

If Jeff is worried about these patches destabilizing UML you can held them out
for now (but keep in -mm for 2.6.20), that's absolutely fine for me; however
there are a few real bug fixes for error paths and IMHO they are safe enough
to merge.

> "[PATCH 03/11] uml ubd driver: var renames" didn't apply due to
> dummy_device_release not being present, which doesn't inspire confidence.
> What tree are you patching?
It's just git HEAD, but earlier little patches cause that conflict.
I am sure that the obvious fixup is correct.

I just gave a look to that hunk in the addition log and it looks ok.
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