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Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:49:45 +0200
From:	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	eaa@...medical.com, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	kernel@...32linux.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MTD/block regression (was Re: Slub debugging NAND error in
 2.6.25.10.atmel.2)

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:34:12 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> Really sorry about that. A fix was queued in Jens' tree:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122000748432301&w=2

Ah, great. Sorry for not searching the list before posting.

> > Unfortunately, I can't revert it cleanly, so it could be a false
> > positive. But it does sort of make sense, since it makes the filter
> > per-queue instead of per-gendisk, so if MTD uses the same queue for
> > several block devices, the filter kobject might end up being
> > initialized multiple times. Or something.  
> 
> Right, the problem is that MTD uses the same queue for multiple
> gendisks. It would be great if a MTD developer could fix it.

Yeah, I sort of suspected that MTD was doing something unusual.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the MTD and block code
to help out here...

Haavard	
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