Hi Dave, Am Freitag, 23. November 2012, 02:01:23 schrieb Dave Chinner: > Any particular reason you picked this patch for a backport and not > many of the other fixes that went into the 3.7 series? Mainly two reasons: time and before spending many hours trying to 'backport' all this stuff, I first wanted to see what the response would be like in general. I'm still new to the stable kernel business, so I already expected that there will be some learning curve ;) Maybe I should add a "Learners Sticker" to my first xx stable related messages :P So I really appreciate your feedback. > > As it is, this problem is not that easy to hit, and I'm wary of > backporting changes to the io completion/Io submission error > handling paths to stable kernels without wider testing of the fix > (i.e. release of 3.7 and then a couple of weeks of people using it). > That's the reason why I didn't put a cc to the stable kernel on the > commit in the first place. > > Sometimes there's good reason for being cautious about > backporting fixes to stable kernels - if the problem is not being > reported by users then letting the fixes get out into the real world > for a while before backporting them to the stable kernels is the > right approach. Stable kernels are supposed to be stable, and as > such we want to be certain that changes are not going to have > unintneded consequences and then have to rush more fixes back to the > stable kernels because we broke them.... As stated in the other mail, I was a bit too eager here as well ;) We should probably wait with the inclusion - so sorry for the noise. Thanks, PeterH _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
