Tejun,
On 2018/05/19 0:08, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Damien.
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:52:12PM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> I forgot to add a CC:stable for patch 5. I think that it is worthwhile
>> to have that patch in stable too. What do you think ?
>> Having the other patches in stable would be nice too, but I leave that
>> decision to you.
>
> The patches are queued for 4.18 so aren't in mainline yet. The fifth
> patch would be nice to backport and we can either,
>
> 1. Cherry-pick the commit into 4.17-fixes and cc stable, to push it
> right away.
>
> 2. Wait for the merge window and then send it to -stable.
>
> Given that we're pretty close to rc6, I'm leaning towards the latter.
> If that works, we can reply to the original patch posting w/ stable
> cc'd and refer to the commit once the merge is done.
Patch 5 fixes a useless retry for SMR disks and I have not heard of any other
more serious problem related to the fix. So I guess we can wait (option 2).
Thanks !
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