On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 2:23 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:10:05AM -0300, Guilherme Piccoli wrote: > > Hi Christoph, thanks for looking into this. > > You're right, this series fixes both issues. The problem I see though > > is that it relies > > on legacy IO path removal - for v5.0 and beyond, all fine. But > > backporting that to > > v4.17-v4.20 stable series will be quite painful. > > > > My fixes are mostly "oneliners". If we could get both approaches upstream, > > that'd be perfect! > > But they basically just fix code that otherwise gets removed. And the way > this patches uses the ENTERED flag from the md code looks slightly > sketchy to me. Maybe we want them as stable only patches. OK, it makes sense to me, if that is a possibility. The fist one is clearly a small and non-intrusive fix. The 2nd indeed is more invasive heh Please let me know how to proceed to have that added at least in stable trees; this would help a lot the distro side of the world hehe Cheers, Guilherme
