> Christoph, > > > Ok. If the stable maintainers are ok with your small fix I'm not > > going to complain too loudly. But I'm always worried about stable > > trees divering too much from mainline. > > The seemingly innocuous transition from SG_GAPS to virt boundary has > caused several data corruption regressions in the distro kernels. So has the > corresponding conversion of storvsc. > > As a result, getting the current upstream code into 4.1 would mean > backporting and testing a significant amount of both block layer and driver > code. I don't think it's worth the risk. This patch is simple and the path of least > resistance. > > Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Sorry to bring up this patch again. It seems it hasn't made it to stable branches. Please take a look. > > -- > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
