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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:43:16 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [23/27] kernel.h: add printk_ratelimited and pr_<level>_rl
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:35:50PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:46 +0200, Phil Carmody wrote:
> > On 23/01/12 15:41 -0800, ext Greg KH wrote:
> > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > This looks like an added feature with no users in .32 - does it really 
> > belong in a stable tree?
> > (But to be explicit, I have no issue with its contents at all.)
> 
> It's required for commit 0bfc96cb77224736dfa35c3c555d37b3646ef35e
> ('block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices'), though
> that hasn't actually been included in this series.  I think that's
> because there is still ongoing discussion of which error codes need to
> be used.

That is exactly right.

Phil, thanks for reviewing, you are correct that this is a new
"feature", but it is needed for this other patch that people are still
arguing over :)

thanks,

greg k-h