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Block integrity patches for 2.6.28

From:  "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To:  jens.axboe@oracle.com, neilb@suse.de, agk@sourceware.org
Subject:  Block integrity patches for 2.6.28
Date:  Wed, 1 Oct 2008 03:38:36 -0400
Message-ID:  <1222846723-18213-1-git-send-email-martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc:  dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread


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

being reverted.

--
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering



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