[PATCH 1/5] mtd: fix bdev exclusive open bugs in block2mtd::add_device()

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Sat Nov 13 05:42:58 EST 2010


Hello,

On 11/13/2010 11:38 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 17:15 +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> +			if (!IS_ERR(bdev)) {
>> +				int ret;
>> +				ret = bd_claim(bdev, dev);
>> +				if (ret) {
>> +					blkdev_put(bdev,
>> +						   FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE);
> 
> Would be a bit cleaner to define ea temporary variable:
> 
> fmode_t mode = FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE;
> 
> Would you to re-send with this little change please?

Yeap, sure.

> And ideally, 2 independent patches would be nicer because you fix 2
> independent issues.

Hmmm... not really.  The patch is small enough and splitting it won't
really buy as any better bisectability.  Splitting patches into
logical changes is a good thing but it's no religious dogma.  Let's
apply it to the point it actually helps.

Thank you.

-- 
tejun



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