Hi! On 14.12.2016 22:09, Brian Norris wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 07:24:46PM +0000, Karl Beldan wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Brian Norris >> <computersforpe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:15:31PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote: >>>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:43:56 +0200 >>>> Daniel Walter <dwal...@sigma-star.at> wrote: >>>> >>>>> From: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> >>>>> >>>>> If the master device has callbacks for _get/put_device() >>>>> and this MTD has slaves a get_mtd_device() call on paritions >>>>> will never issue the registered callbacks. >>>>> Fix this by propagating _get/put_device() down. >>>> >>>> Brian, can we have this one queued for 4.9? I can't take it in my tree >>>> if you want, but it's probably better if it's in the mtd tree. >>> >>> Applied this patch to l2-mtd.git >>> >> >> I think this should also go into -stable. > > Why? Do you have real use cases that are broken by this? I understand > 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.
Yes. AFAICT you can only trigger it using my "new" nandsim which is not mainline so far. Thanks, //richard
