Re: [PATCH] splice: update mtime and atime on files

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Aug 18 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > I've never heard anyone complain about this, and I suspect that Miklos
> > found it from code inspection rather than experiencing an issue with it.
> 
> Right, I found it by code inspection.
> 
> > So while it can indeed be classified as a bug (and it is), the impact is
> > not huge.
> > 
> > That said, I don't have a huge issue with shoving this in -stable. I
> > just don't think it's a big deal.
> 
> I agree that it's not a huge issue, however it might be worth it to
> add it to -stable for the sake of distro kernels which are usually
> based on the long term stable branch.  If new apps start to use the
> splice interface then we want those to work well on distros as well as
> the latest kernel.org kernels.

As I said, I don't have a problem with adding it to -stable, even if it
isn't a critical issue. The patch is straight forward and fixes a real
issue, so risk is low (and benefit high).

-- 
Jens Axboe