On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:52:00PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:57:45 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:51:04AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 13:34 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > > > > know. > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > > > From: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de> > > > > > > > > commit 6dafab6b1383e912cd252fa809570b484eb6e0dc upstream. > > > [...] > > > > This is suitable for -stable as out-of-data metadata could lead > > > > to data corruption. > > > > This is only relevant for 3.3 and later 9when 'replacement' as > > > > introduced. > > > [...] > > > > > > Assuming Neil hasn't changed his mind about this, it should therefore > > > not be applied to 3.0. > > > > Neil, is this true? > > > > greg k-h > > Yes it is true - my bad. > > I should have realised that when you pointed out that the backport wasn't > clean. > The patch won't hurt 3.0, but it isn't necessary at all, so best leave it out.
Thanks for letting us know, I've now dropped this. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/