Re: Block integrity patches for 2.6.28

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 06:57:01 EST


On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>
> This patch series contains block layer integrity updates for 2.6.28.
>
> There are a few fixes to the core bits, including a switch from
> block_device to gendisk in the integrity compare function. I also had
> to add a helper to access a gendisk's integrity profile. This is used
> by MD.
>
> The DM bits have been cleaned up and a separate dm_table_set_integrity
> function has been introduced. This allows us to avoid changing
> dm_table_set_restrictions() and its callers.
>
> The MD patch now correctly handles devices that come and go (as
> requested by Neil).
>
> The patches are against for-2.6.28 and depend on
>
> d7533ad0e132f92e75c1b2eb7c26387b25a583c1

As far as I can tell, most of that commit is still fine. You want
bdev_get_integrity() in blkdev.h, the 3 other moves and the unused
bdev_get_tag_size() do not look like they are being used by this patch
set.

Correct?

--
Jens Axboe

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