On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 12:59 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 02:37:32PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote: > > > On 10/31/2012 02:29 PM, Sage Weil wrote: > > > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Greg KH wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 05:37:31PM -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > > > >>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Greg KH wrote: > > > >>>> What stable tree(s) do you want this applied to? > > > >>> > > > >>> Sorry- this series is for 3.6.x. Thanks! > > > >> > > > >> Why? It seems that some of these should also go to older kernels, like > > > >> 3.4 and 3.0, right? > > > > > > > > Yeah.. that's my dilemma. Alex put together branches in > > > > ceph-client.git > > > > picking out fixes for 3.4 and 3.5. The problem is that the important > > > > fixes were extensive patches (restructuring the locking for a whole > > > > segment of code), so I'm not sure how palatable they are for the stable > > > > kernels. They demonstrably fix the bugs, but they are big. I wanted > > > > to > > > > get these recent fixes into 3.6 stable before figuring out what to do > > > > about the older kernels. > > > > > > 9 patches on top of 3.5.4 (I know, 3.5.7 is current). Most of those > > > will probably be OK, or if really pressed, could be back-ported with > > > a bit more work. > > > > > > 3.4.9 has a 28 patch series, and I know some of those were not > > > direct bug fixes, they were patches put in place to make the > > > bug fixes apply without risking them becoming new bugs... > > > > That's ok, and is how it should be done, if they are direct backports of > > patches that are already in Linus's tree. I'd rather have exact copies, > > and lots of them, than small number of newly created patches. > > > > > I think if we can get the big series int 3.4 stable it would > > > be preferable. > > > > Send them on and I'll be glad to review them. > > Perfect. I'll send a fresh series for 3.4 shortly. You can drop the ones > from the previous set that you applied on 3.4; they'll be included in the > series (or not; some aren't relevant).
If you could provide a series for 3.2 as well, that would be very much appreciated. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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