Re: request for inclusion of 04197b341f23 ("xfs: don't BUG() on mixed direct and mapped I/O")

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On 25.07.2017 16:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:47:45AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> Oh, and I need an ack from the xfs maintainers to be able to take this,
>> there must be some reason they didn't backport it like they did for a
>> number of other xfs patches...
> 
> In general we'd like to see xfstests runs for all stable backports,
> because file system code is hairy.
> 
> So for any xfs stable backports please send the list of patches you
> want backported, and tell us that you did indeed run xfstests.  No
> proof is required, we'd like to trust our contributors.
> 

Before including this in our enterprise distribution I did run xfstest
with and without the patch and there was no difference in the result.
Hence I sent the patch.



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