On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 08:10:16AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > As someone who has done xfs stable backports for a while I really don't > think the autoselection is helpful at all. autoselection for xfs patches has been turned off for a while, what triggered this email thread was a core vfs patch that was backported that was not obvious it was created by the xfs developers due to a problem they had found. > Someone who is vaguely familiar with the code needs to manually select > the commits and QA them, which takes a fair amount of time, but just > needs some manual help if it should work ok. > > I think we are about ready to have a new xfs stable maintainer lined up > if everything works well fortunately. That would be wonderful news. thanks, greg k-h
