Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757349AbcLOHvM (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:51:12 -0500 Received: from b.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.144]:44723 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754718AbcLOHvL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:51:11 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/46] mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device() To: Karl Beldan , Brian Norris References: <984fd8eb53b742bd46e7b42605ae4e0ceaf5ba08.1474450295.git.dwalter@sigma-star.at> <20160921121531.7786ee9b@bbrezillon> <20160928201611.GB142302@google.com> <20161214210935.GA135941@google.com> Cc: Boris Brezillon , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , David Woodhouse , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Walter , Stable From: Richard Weinberger Message-ID: <4a84fc5f-5980-5be0-6488-af77e0e8548a@nod.at> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:51:06 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 26 On 15.12.2016 08:09, Karl Beldan wrote: >>> 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. What exactly are you doing? >> 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. If existing stuff is broken, and you can trigger it. Please let us know. Then it should go into -stable. Thanks, //richard