On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:01:31AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 09:23:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 8:50 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch does not work correctly without '-funsigned-char', and I
> don't think that has been back-ported to stable kernels.
>
> That said, the patch *almost* works.
So I'm not convinced this should be back-ported at all, but it's
certainly true that going back and forth between the two cases would
be problematic.
Yeah, I wouldn't backport this patch, since it also requires changes
to e2fsprogs that will take a while to propagate to stable distributions.
Ack, I'll drop it. Thanks!
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Thanks,
Sasha
