On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:37:35PM -0800, Michael Rubin wrote: > We know. Our qualifying process is not the most light weight and the > kernel moves fast. Normally we take a snapshot and qualify it, trying > to take upstream patches when we can and then also publishing bugs we > find. The problem is that with ext4 still undergoing active dev we > want to be able to keep our ext4 portion of the tree as up to date as > possible. I understand, and it's not a burden to answer questions like this. I was just pointing out the effort that it will likely take to backport the percpu counter patches, since you will need to scan the your sources and make sure the behavioural changes in percpu_counter_sum isn't going to cause problems for you elsewhere, and that this sort of thing is probably going to get harder as time goes by, not easier. I know how painful it can be, since I've been having a hard time backporting fixes to the 2.6.27 stable tree. The good news is that ext4 development is settling down, so if you manage to take another snapshot around 2.6.29 or 2.6.30, I suspect life will be much easier (at least as far as backporting patches for ext4 is concerned.) Best regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
