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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com, jean-philippe francois <jp.francois@cynove.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ubi patch proposition for 3.10.y
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:16:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540D81E2.5010203@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410170318.10764.119.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

Am 08.09.2014 11:58, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 14:26 +0200, jean-philippe francois wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think commit 4b3e0a25... [1] (UBI: Call scan_all() with correct
>> offset in error case) should be added to 3.10.y stable branch.
> 
> This is the "fastmap" fix, and fastmap is called experimental. We do not
> have enough confidence it is production ready. Specifically, I'd like to
> hear someone doing extensive power-cut testing with this feature. The
> power-cut tolerance is one of the "selling features" of UBI/UBIFS, after
> all.
> 
> Therefore I never added fastmap fixes to the stable queue.
> 
> But if someone is willing to put all the fastmap fixes together, add the
> "stable tags" with the right kernel version "markings", and test for few
> older kernels, then I will recommend them to be included to the stable.
> Although I am not sure the stable maintainers would like accept them.

I'll take care of that from now on.

Thanks,
//richard

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-29 12:26 Ubi patch proposition for 3.10.y jean-philippe francois
2014-09-01 21:51 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-01 22:02   ` Greg KH
2014-09-03 22:08     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-08  9:47       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-09-08  9:51         ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-08  9:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-09-08 10:04   ` Willy Tarreau
2014-09-08 10:13     ` Richard Genoud
2014-09-08 10:13     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-09-08 10:53       ` Willy Tarreau
2014-09-08 11:03       ` jean-philippe francois
2014-09-08 10:16   ` Richard Weinberger [this message]

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