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

From Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built as module"
Date 2016-02-12 11:10 +0100
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On 11 February 2016 at 18:19, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

Doesn't the Fixes tag take care of that?

Kind regards
Uffe

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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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