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On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> So should I not push this type of fix to Linus now?  I was going to send
> the above commit and this one to him this week:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.7&id=57b3001b240629ecc5266d28c845e23ca5f11719
> 
> Instead, should bcache be made to not do what it is doing?

I think that's much preferably.  Otherwise we'll get a constant trickles
of patches like that whenever someone tries bcache on top of another
stacking driver.