From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bvanassche@acm.org (Bart Van Assche) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:40:03 -0800 Subject: v5.0-rc2 and NVMeOF In-Reply-To: <20190226181211.GU4072@linux.ibm.com> References: <20190213184839.GD4240@linux.ibm.com> <1550085136.19311.78.camel@acm.org> <20190213193013.GG4240@linux.ibm.com> <20190213195205.GA13650@linux.ibm.com> <1550091612.31902.48.camel@acm.org> <20190213220923.GK4240@linux.ibm.com> <1550103713.31902.57.camel@acm.org> <20190214010210.GM4240@linux.ibm.com> <20190226173520.GA21832@linux.ibm.com> <1551203224.31902.173.camel@acm.org> <20190226181211.GU4072@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <1551206403.31902.179.camel@acm.org> On Tue, 2019-02-26@10:12 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > But if you want me to try to push this into v5.1, I need you to very > explicitly tell me that you want me to do this. Sorry to be picky, but > my normal process cut off contributions to v5.0 more than a month ago, > and my usual position is that a backport to -stable covers almost all > use cases and reduces risk to those using mainline. Yes, RCU patches > do start off under a considerable cloud of suspicion. Which is one of > the reasons that RCU works at all. ;-) > > So again, if you need me to try to push this into v5.1, I do need an > explicit request from you. Hi Paul, If this patch will only be sent to Linus during the v5.2 merge window, will a "Cc: stable # v..." tag be added to this patch that causes this patch to be applied to kernel versions before v5.2 on which it is safe to apply this patch? Thanks, Bart.