RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] remove use of get_gendisk in blkfront

["Ling, Xiaofeng" <xiaofeng.ling@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian, this is one of the patches to enable para-driver in unmodified linux.
how about the other patches now?
Any comments for them?

Ian Pratt <> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 16:28 +0800, Xiaofeng Ling wrote:
>>> remove use of get_gendisk in blkfront gen_gendisk is no long
>>> exported by 2.6 kernel. this patch
>> remove the
>>> call of get_gendisk by saving the gd point in blkfront_info in vbd.c
>>> so that blkfront can be built as kerenl module.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Ling <xiaofeng.ling@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> This looks correct to me and helps in building blkfront as a module.
>> Any chance of getting it committed?  I've gone ahead and rediffed
>> against the current tip and cleaned up the warnings.
>>  Attached here.
> 
> Looks good to me -- AFAIK it was only dropped by accident first time
> around. 
> 
> Folks: if you submit a patch for inclusion please keep resending
> every 48h until you get some kind of response or it's committed. 
> 
> [Aside: it would be really nice if there was some tool that pulled
> patches off a mailing list and fed them into something like bugzilla,
> along with all the coments associated with a patch. It should also
> watch the changelog list and update the status as 'APPLIED' when
> appropriate. At any time an author could withdraw/supercede a patch,
> and a maintainer could reject/keep-on-file. A really smart system
> would also keep patches fresh by trying to rebase them, or at least
> note if they still apply cleanly.]      
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian
> 
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