From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>,
Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>,
Peter Kieser <peter@kieser.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] bcache changes for 3.17
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:26:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908152634.GA32677@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540A377C.2000901@kernel.dk>
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:21:48PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 09/05/2014 03:45 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:31:06AM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> >> On 08/10/2014 09:54 AM, Peter Kieser wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 2014-08-05 9:58 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>>> On 08/04/2014 10:33 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> >>>>> Hey Jens, here's the pull request for 3.17 - typically late, but lots of tasty
> >>>>> fixes in this one :)
> >>>> Normally I'd say no, but since it's basically just fixes, I guess we can
> >>>> pull it in. But generally, it has to be in my hands a week before this,
> >>>> so it can simmer a bit in for-next before going in...
> >>>>
> >>> Are these fixes going to be backported to 3.10 or other stable releases?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Could you please answer this question ?
> >>
> >> If you don't want to maintain bcache for stable kernels (I can
> >> understand that), can you mark it at least as unstable/experimental
> >> stuff since it really is ?
> >
> > WTF?
> >
> > Just because a maintainer/developer doesn't want to do anything for the
> > stable kernel releases does _NOT_ mean the code is
> > "unstable/expreimental" at all.
>
> That's not what he is saying at all. The code IS unstable in 3.10. And
> the fact that nothing goes to stable for bcache, the situation wasn't
> likely to change for 3.10. Nobody is saying "Oh nothing goes to stable,
> lets mark it experimental".
Sorry, but with only the context above which is what I was sent, you can
see how I can be confused here...
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-05 4:33 [GIT PULL] bcache changes for 3.17 Kent Overstreet
2014-08-05 16:58 ` Jens Axboe
2014-08-10 7:54 ` Peter Kieser
2014-09-05 7:31 ` Francis Moreau
2014-09-05 14:17 ` Jens Axboe
2014-09-05 14:28 ` Vasiliy Tolstov
2014-09-05 14:30 ` Jens Axboe
2014-09-05 14:44 ` Francis Moreau
2014-09-05 21:46 ` Greg KH
2014-09-05 15:37 ` Eddie Chapman
2014-09-05 16:41 ` Peter Kieser
2014-09-05 17:03 ` Arne Wiebalck
2014-09-05 17:10 ` Jens Axboe
2014-09-05 18:33 ` Kent Overstreet
2014-09-05 18:46 ` Stefan Priebe
2015-02-05 13:40 ` Francis Moreau
2014-09-06 0:33 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-05 21:45 ` Greg KH
2014-09-05 22:21 ` Jens Axboe
2014-09-08 15:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-09-05 23:17 ` Peter Kieser
2014-09-08 15:27 ` Greg KH
2014-09-06 9:23 ` Francis Moreau
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