Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934089AbcLNXkh (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:40:37 -0500 Received: from mail-pg0-f66.google.com ([74.125.83.66]:33053 "EHLO mail-pg0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933659AbcLNXkf (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:40:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:40:25 -0800 From: Brian Norris To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Karl Beldan , Boris Brezillon , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , David Woodhouse , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Walter , Stable Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/46] mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device() Message-ID: <20161214234025.GA24990@google.com> References: <984fd8eb53b742bd46e7b42605ae4e0ceaf5ba08.1474450295.git.dwalter@sigma-star.at> <20160921121531.7786ee9b@bbrezillon> <20160928201611.GB142302@google.com> <20161214210935.GA135941@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 17 On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:12:42PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On 14.12.2016 22:09, Brian Norris wrote: > > 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. > > Yes. AFAICT you can only trigger it using my "new" nandsim > which is not mainline so far. Ah, OK. So the only current _{get,put}_device() implementor in mainline is gluebi, so far. And it's OK for now to just have the master device be refcounted, and just rely on the partitions being removed before the master, right? In that case, no, this shouldn't go to -stable. Brian