On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 08:06:49AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: > Hi, > > Since v5.10 is an LTS release, I'm wondering should we backport write > time tree-checker feature to v5.10? > > There are already some reports of runtime memory bitflip get written to > disk and causing problems. > > Unfortunately write-time tree-checker is only introduced in v5.11, one > version late. > > Considering how many bitflips write-time tree-checker has caught (and > prevented corrupted data reaching disk), I think it's definitely worthy > to backport it to an LTS kernel. > > Or is there any special requirement for LTS kernel to reject certain > features? Stable/LTS kernels do not get new features, sorry. If someone wants this feature, why not just use 5.15? thanks, greg k-h
