Re: Linux 6.2-rc1

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jan 05 2023 - 06:25:53 EST


On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:43:16PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > The removal seems to revert cleanly, although it does require
> > reverting a few subsequent commits too (that removed code that only
> > pktcdvd used):
> >
> > git revert db1c7d779767 85d6ce58e493 f40eb99897af
> >
> > where we have
> >
> > db1c7d779767 block: bio_copy_data_iter
> > 85d6ce58e493 block: remove devnode callback from struct
> > block_device_operations
> > f40eb99897af pktcdvd: remove driver.
>
> I'll queue this up - and unless I hear valid complaints to why we should
> not just reinstate the driver for now, it'll go out with the next pull
> request.

If you do revert these, watch out for a build warning from the driver
core when you revert this, I think there's a 'const' missing from
somewhere that you might have to add back in due to other driver core
changes.

thanks,

greg k-h