Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:43:16 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [23/27] kernel.h: add printk_ratelimited and pr_<level>_rl |
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:35:50PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:46 +0200, Phil Carmody wrote: > > On 23/01/12 15:41 -0800, ext Greg KH wrote: > > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > This looks like an added feature with no users in .32 - does it really > > belong in a stable tree? > > (But to be explicit, I have no issue with its contents at all.) > > It's required for commit 0bfc96cb77224736dfa35c3c555d37b3646ef35e > ('block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices'), though > that hasn't actually been included in this series. I think that's > because there is still ongoing discussion of which error codes need to > be used.
That is exactly right.
Phil, thanks for reviewing, you are correct that this is a new "feature", but it is needed for this other patch that people are still arguing over :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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