On 2018/5/3 10:34 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 5/3/18 4:51 AM, Coly Li wrote: >> Hi Jens, >> >> I receive bug reports from partners for the bcache cache device failure >> handling patch set (which is just merged into 4.17-rc1). Fortunately we >> are still in 4.17 merge window, I suggest to have these fixes to go into >> 4.17 merge window too. > Hi Jens, > We're not, though. The merge window is from when 4.16 is released and > until 4.17-rc1 is tagged, so we're way beyond at this point. That doesn't I have more clean concept what a merge window is :-) > mean we can't take fixes, but this late in the cycle, they really have > to be fixes for regressions introduced in this merge window. Or simple > or serious enough that we should take them for this release, instead > of pushing them to the 4.18 merge window. > Maybe next time (if there is) I should say the fixes should go into this release, not merge window. Because the merge window is gone after rc1 released. > Looking over your series, looks like they are all fine for this release. > I'll apply them. > Thanks for picking them. Great news. Coly Li
