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

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Message-ID: <CACYmx9P8LgpZFu8yZR0UqAi52D2Sn6Ht+A6h-qygeAz8AsULwA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:24:46 +0000
From:   Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@...il.com>
To:     Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        "linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Walter <dwalter@...ma-star.at>,
        Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/46] mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device()

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Brian Norris
<computersforpeace@...il.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 <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
>

I think this should also go into -stable.