Ling, Xiaofeng
2005-Nov-10 01:20 UTC
RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] remove use of get_gendisk in blkfront
Ian, this is one of the patches to enable para-driver in unmodified linux. how about the other patches now? Any comments for them? Ian Pratt <> wrote:>> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 16:28 +0800, Xiaofeng Ling wrote: >>> remove use of get_gendisk in blkfront gen_gendisk is no long >>> exported by 2.6 kernel. this patch >> remove the >>> call of get_gendisk by saving the gd point in blkfront_info in vbd.c >>> so that blkfront can be built as kerenl module. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Ling <xiaofeng.ling@intel.com> >> >> This looks correct to me and helps in building blkfront as a module. >> Any chance of getting it committed? I''ve gone ahead and rediffed >> against the current tip and cleaned up the warnings. >> Attached here. > > Looks good to me -- AFAIK it was only dropped by accident first time > around. > > Folks: if you submit a patch for inclusion please keep resending > every 48h until you get some kind of response or it''s committed. > > [Aside: it would be really nice if there was some tool that pulled > patches off a mailing list and fed them into something like bugzilla, > along with all the coments associated with a patch. It should also > watch the changelog list and update the status as ''APPLIED'' when > appropriate. At any time an author could withdraw/supercede a patch, > and a maintainer could reject/keep-on-file. A really smart system > would also keep patches fresh by trying to rebase them, or at least > note if they still apply cleanly.] > > Thanks, > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel