linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/46] mtdpart: Propagate _get/put

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Message-ID: <20160928201611.GB142302@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:16:11 -0700
From:   Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     Daniel Walter <dwalter@...ma-star.at>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/46] mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device()

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:15:31PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:43:56 +0200
> Daniel Walter <dwalter@...ma-star.at> wrote:
> 
> > From: Richard Weinberger <richard@....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