On 12/16/19 3:07 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > On 16/12/2019 01:13, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 12/15/19 4:02 AM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> >>> The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. >>> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm >>> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit >>> id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. >> >> Might just be better to drop this from the 5.4 pile, unless Pavel >> is motivated to backport it. Even if it throws a lot of rejects, most >> of the hunks are trivial. Only one that requires a bit of thinking is >> the one that deals with link issue. >> > I can, but do we want to backport new features? It may add new bugs, that > completely betrays the idea. Anyway, let me know if it has to be done. It's not about backporting a feature, it's about backporting the same behavior to 5.4. We don't have links in 5.3 and earlier, and would be nice to have the same in 5.4 and later. But it's not a huge deal for this one... -- Jens Axboe
