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Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built as module"

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 04:54:11PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> This reverts commit 829b6962f7e3cfc06f7c5c26269fd47ad48cf503.
> 
> Revert this change as it causes a sysfs path to change and therefore
> introduces and ABI regression. More precisely Android's vold is not being
> able to access /sys/module/mmcblk/parameters/perdev_minors any more, since
> the path becomes changed to: "/sys/module/mmc_block/..."
> 
> Fixes: 829b6962f7e3 ("mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built as
> module")
> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>

Please also add a "cc: stable..." tag to the patch so it gets picked up
in stable kernel releases.

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built as module" Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> - 2016-02-11 17:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built  as module" Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> - 2016-02-11 17:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built  as module" John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-02-11 23:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built  as module" Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-11 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built  as module" Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> - 2016-02-12 11:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built  as module" Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-12 17:40 +0100

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