On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:37:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Hello stable team, > > These patches have been shipping in mainline since v5.7-rc1 with no > reported issues. They address long standing problems in libnvdimm's > handling of namespace provisioning relative to alignment constraints > including crashes trying to even load the driver on some PowerPC > configurations. > > I did fold one build fix [1] into "libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' > attribute" so as to not convey the bisection breakage to -stable. > > Please consider them for v5.4-stable. They do pass the latest > version of the ndctl unit tests. What about 5.6.y? Any user upgrading from 5.4-stable to 5.6-stable would hit a regression, right? So can we get a series backported to 5.6.y as well? I need that before I can take this series. thanks, greg k-h
