Re: [GIT PULL] bcache changes for 3.17

[Jens Axboe]

On 09/05/2014 01:31 AM, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On 08/10/2014 09:54 AM, Peter Kieser wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-08-05 9:58 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 08/04/2014 10:33 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>>>> Hey Jens, here's the pull request for 3.17 - typically late, but lots of tasty
>>>> fixes in this one :)
>>> Normally I'd say no, but since it's basically just fixes, I guess we can
>>> pull it in. But generally, it has to be in my hands a week before this,
>>> so it can simmer a bit in for-next before going in...
>>>
>> Are these fixes going to be backported to 3.10 or other stable releases?
>>
> 
> Could you please answer this question ?
> 
> If you don't want to maintain bcache for stable kernels (I can
> understand that), can you mark it at least as unstable/experimental
> stuff since it really is ?

We need to do something about this. From this latest pull, looks like
all should go to stable:

5b1016e62f74c53e0330403025954c8d95384c03
9aa61a992acceeec0d1de2cd99938421498659d5
dbd810ab678d262d3772d29b65844d7b20dc47bc
8b326d3a2a76912dfed2f0ab937d59fae9512ca2
e5112201c1285841f8b565ece5d6ae7e0d7947a2
a664d0f05a2ec02c8f042db536d84d15d6e19e81
c5aa4a3157b55bdca18dd2a9d9f43314470b6d32
9e5c353510b26500bd6b8309823ac9ef2837b761
bcf090e0040e30f8409e6a535a01e6473afb096f
501d52a90cbe652b41336c206ff0e95799d5a9b5
8e0948080670f6330229718b15a6a1a011d441ce
60ae81eee86dd7a520db8c1e3d702b49fc0418b5
913dc33fb2720fb5f979011664294137ddd8b13b
6b708de64adb6dc8319e7aeac922b46904fbeeec
400ffaa2acd72274e2c7293a9724382383bebf3e
d83353b319d47ef8cce82467da6a25c2d558253f
bf0c55c986540483c34ca640f2eef4c3314388b1
c9a78332b42cbdcdd386a95192a716b67d1711a4
2452cc89063a2a6890368f185c4b6d7d8802175b
25abade29616d42d60f9bd5e6a5ad07f7314e39e
5b25abade29616d42d60f9bd5e6a5ad07f7314e3
789d21dbd9d8889e62c79ec19585fcc97e42ef07
0781c8748cf1ea2b0dcd966571103909528c4efa

(from oldest to newest). And that's just from 3.16 to 3.17-rc3, going
all the way back to 3.10 would be a lot of work. If there's anyone that
cares about bcache on stable kernels (and actually use it), now would be
a good time to pipe up.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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