Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932221AbWEMAKx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 20:10:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932300AbWEMAKx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 20:10:53 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:45507 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932221AbWEMAKv (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 20:10:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 17:08:52 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Al Viro , Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , Erik Mouw , Or Gerlitz , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache Message-ID: <20060513000852.GA31511@kroah.com> References: <20060511151456.GD3755@harddisk-recovery.com> <15ddcffd0605112153q57f139a1k7068e204a3eeaf1f@mail.gmail.com> <20060512171632.GA29077@harddisk-recovery.com> <20060512203416.GA17120@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20060512214354.GP27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20060512215520.GH17120@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20060512220807.GR27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20060512222816.GS27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060512222816.GS27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1688 Lines: 44 On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:28:16PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:22:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 12 May 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > > > > > Secondary question: who had resurrected that crap? I distinctly remember > > > killing it off... > > > > If you did, I don't think it ever got into the kernel. > > > > It was added by Kay Sievers on Nov 3, 2004, according to the old history > > (back then it was in drivers/block/genhd.c, and the function was called > > "block_hotplug()", but apart from renaming the function and moving the > > file, it's recognizably the same. > > > > Of course, you may have killed off an even earlier incarnation.. > > Ah, right - there was another uevent mess in fs/super.c. Sorry, got them > confused... and that FPOS _is_ back. > > gregkh, may I ask why had bdev_uevent() been resurrected? One user, running an old version of HAL, on a distro that had an updated version available (Gentoo), refused to upgrade it and was upset that when they plugged a usb-storage device in, it did not show up as an icon on the desktop. Andrew pointed out that we broke the "don't break the userspace API" kernel rule, so I put the patch back, and noted when it would finally be removed. I would gladly remove it again if everyone can agree that they will not get upset at me again when someone running obsolete/broken userspace programs complains... thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/