Re: [commit cbf76b702] bcache: Really show state of work pending bit

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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:06:05PM +0000, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:06:58PM +0000, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 05:34:19PM -0800, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> > > > > To whom it may concern:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Please flag commit cbf76b702 for inclusion into stable branches.  It 
> > > > > applies cleanly in 4.1 (and likely 3.18).  We have been testing it for a 
> > > > > while.
> > > > > 
> > > > > git diff --stat cbf76b702~1..cbf76b702
> > > > >  drivers/md/bcache/closure.c | 4 +---
> > > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thank you!
> > > > 
> > > > $ git show cbf76b702
> > > > fatal: ambiguous argument 'cbf76b702': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
> > > > 
> > > > You are going to have to be a bit more specific...
> > > 
> > > This one:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > commit cbf76b702e85802683c166ad9067874bc3e1e843
> > > Author: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Mon Oct 5 14:39:52 2015 +0200
> > 
> > There is no such commit in Linus's tree.
> 
> Hmm, not sure where that commit hash came from then.  Here it is properly:
>   	8d090f47315507c3064ca4eefa9a1da52390b52e 
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8d090f47315507c3064ca4eefa9a1da52390b52e

That's better.

But this is just a debugging patch, for a debugfs file, how does it
follow the rules outlined in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for
what is acceptable for a stable kernel release?

greg k-h
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