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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dm-cache questions
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:06:44 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 10 2013 at  9:08pm -0500,
Paul B. Henson <henson@acm.org> wrote:

> > From: Alasdair G Kergon [mailto:agk@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:04 PM
> >
> > We send them to mainline and stable then it is up to the distributions
> > concerned to choose to apply them.
> 
> I meant more whether they'd get applied to the LTS kernel upstream; eg, show
> up in a minor patch to 3.10 from kernel.org. 

3.10 is actively maintained by gregkh as a "longterm" stable kernel so
all relevant upstream commits should make their way into that tree:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/08/longterm-kernel-310