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:

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On 23/01/12 15:41 -0800, ext Greg KH wrote:

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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