linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: ixp4xx: oops in ixp4xx_flash

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Date:	Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:15:33 +0100
From:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:	dedekind1@...il.com
CC:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...ckshift.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: ixp4xx: oops in ixp4xx_flash_probe

On 02/09/2012 01:11 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 20:24 +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> In commit "c797533 mtd: abstract last MTD partition parser argument" the
>> third argument of "mtd_device_parse_register()" changed from start address
>> of the MTD device to a pointer to a struct.
> 
> Hi, thanks for the fix. Several comments:
> 
> 1. I've removed the huge oops from the description - it is not very
> helpful and not worth having.
> 2. It is usually a good idea to CC the author of the commit causing the
> regression.
> 3. For regressions like this it is a good idea put the stable tree tag.

Noted.

> I've added
> 
> Cc: stable@...nel.org [3.2+]
> 
> (git tag --contains c797533 gives the version)
> 
> and pushed to the l2-mtd.git tree, thanks!

Thanks


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