Re: [PATCH] ide-cd: fix endianity for the error message incdrom_read_capacity

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:12:57PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:33:28AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:52:50AM +0200, Boris Petkov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Andrew Morton
> > > <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:10:06 +0200 Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Resent because of a typo in the LKML address. :(
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Aesthetic regards aside, commit e8e7b9eb11c34ee18bde8b7011af41938d1ad667
> > > >> still leaves a bug in the error message, because it uses the unconverted
> > > >> big-endian value for printk.
> > > >>
> > > >> Fix this by using a local variable in machine byte order. The result is
> > > >> correct, more readable, and also produces slightly shorter code on i386.
> > > >>
> > > >> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > I definitely like this one better, thanks.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > Bart owns this patch now.  It got lost for a month and it has already
> > > > been fixed twice and it is also on the route to 2.6.25.x and 2.6.26.x,
> > > > so it'll get complicated.  Not a happy little patch.
> > > 
> > > Greg, can you please apply this one on top of -stable.
> > 
> > What one?  Do you have a git commit id?
> 
> Oh, sorry about that. Ok, you should have in both 2.6.25 and .26 the patch with
> upstream commit id e8e7b9eb11c34ee18bde8b7011af41938d1ad667. I rediffed the new
> one on top, here's the 2.6.26 version, the 2.6.25 one follows.

I need the patch id when this goes to Linus, in his tree.  If you add
"cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>" to the signed-off-by area, when it gets
into Linus's tree, we will be automatically notified of it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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