Re: [PATCH 2/2] loop: handle on-demand devices correctly

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue May 24 2011 - 11:01:05 EST


On 2011-05-24 16:57, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> 2011-05-24 (í), 16:45 +0200, Jens Axboe:
>> Thanks, applied. Seems we should mark this for stable.
>>
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> The partition handling was introduced by commit 476a4813cfdd ("loop:
> manage partitions in disk image") so that we need these patches for all
> stable releases, AFAICS.
>
> $ git name-rev --tags 476a4813cfdd
> 476a4813cfdd tags/v2.6.26-rc1~1115^2~9

Thanks, I have committed with a stable marker.

> Now I can see that brd (ramdisk) module seems to have same problems with
> loop. I'll work on that, too.

Good catch, btw!

--
Jens Axboe

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