Hi Li Nan, Could you please look into this (back port 9674f54e41ff to older stable kernels)? If there is no clean back port, I would recommend we not do the back port. Thanks, Song On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:40 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:26:43AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 02:04:35AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> How did we end up backporting all these block layer API changes? > > > > They were brought in as a dependency for 9674f54e41ff ("md: Don't clear > > MD_CLOSING when the raid is about to stop"). > > > > It's possible to work around bringing them during backport, but I > > preferred to bring the dependencies instead. > > I really don't see what these giant backports bring us. If people > want all the changes they'd just be better off on a modern kernel > rather than these frankenkernels. The automatic backporting is > gettind way out of hand. If the MD maintainers want > 9674f54e41ff, maybe they can send a tailor made backport?