linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/scsiback: avoid warnings when adding multiple LUNs to a domain

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Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:50:45 +0100
From:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	konrad.wilk@...cle.com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/scsiback: avoid warnings when
 adding multiple LUNs to a domain

On 08/02/16 17:46, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 08/02/16 14:30, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> When adding more than one LUN to a frontend a warning for a failed
>> assignment is issued in dom0 for each already existing LUN. Avoid this
>> warning by checking for a LUN already existing when existence is
>> allowed (scsiback_do_add_lun() called with try == 1).
>>
>> As the LUN existence check is needed now for a third time, factor it
>> out into a function. This in turn leads to a more or less complete
>> rewrite of scsiback_del_translation_entry() which will now return a
>> proper error code in case of failure.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> 
> Avoiding warnings doesn't seem like a viable candidate for stable.  Is
> there more to this patch than the description suggests?

No.

Should I resend without the Cc: stable?


Juergen