From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>,
David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>,
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Stable backport of cifs nlink workaround?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:43:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140225094306.63cccecb@corrin.poochiereds.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140225161156.GA27235@kroah.com>
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:11:56 -0800
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 03:24:43PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any chance that 74d290da476f672ad756634d12aa707375d3564d
> > ([CIFS] Provide sane values for nlink) could be backported to the stable
> > 3.2 kernel?
>
> Why just 3.2? What's wrong with all of the other kernels before 3.12
> that do not have this patch in it?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Yeah, you'd probably need to apply it to every stable kernel > 3.2 or
you'd technically have a regression. I've no real objection to putting
that fix in, but backporting to older kernels may not be trivial. There
have been other changes in this area over the years...
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-25 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-25 15:24 Stable backport of cifs nlink workaround? Sitsofe Wheeler
2014-02-25 15:29 ` Steve French
2014-02-25 16:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-25 17:43 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2014-02-25 18:49 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2014-03-04 19:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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