Op 12-10-15 om 18:36 schreef Peter Kieser: > > > On 2015-10-11 4:04 PM, Andrew Thrift wrote: >> I notice over the past 18 months there have been a number of patches >> posted to this mailing list to resolve known issues with bcache. >> >> I cant see that these have been merged into the main bcache git at >> http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git, is this actually the >> case or am I mistaken? >> >> Will these patches ever be seen in mainline ? > Backports of critical bug fixes not being done was brought to attention of > Greg KH in September 2014, where Jens and myself mentioned that bcache stable > patches (data corruption, stability, etc.) were not being backported to the > Linux stable branches. The response from the author of bcache was "This kind > of unnecessary hostility is why I don't bother with stable much anymore. I get > enough of this bullshit at work, thank you." > > Unfortunately, the situation hasn't cahnged. bcache still will eat your data > under certain use cases, and there is no warning and bcache still doesn't have > a testing/experimental flag set on it. I guess the ultimate answer was > "backport and submit a pull request yourself" but I'm not sure this is > appropriate. If Kent won't do it (for whatever reasons), anyone can propose the patches for backporting to the various stable kernels. This is a seperate problem than the "patches posted to this list don't get into mainline at all" issue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
