Re: bcache stability patches: Now mainlined!

Eric Wheeler
2016-02-24T07:34:21Z

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Am 24.02.2016 um 07:45 schrieb Eric Wheeler:
> > I would like to thank everyone involved in getting these patches
> > mainlined. Bcache should now be stable on the following releases:
> >
> > mainline: 4.5-rc1 (and later)
> > longterm: 4.1.18
> > longterm: 3.18.27
>
> the new longterm 4.4.2 should also contain them all.

I agree, it should, but it doesn't appear to:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/?id=refs/tags/v4.4.2

# git log --grep="bcache:" --oneline | head
532eb52 bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
9ea18f8 Merge branch 'for-3.19/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
aae4933 md/bcache: use generic io stats accounting functions to simplify
io stat accounting d429a36 Merge branch 'for-3.17/drivers' of
git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
[...]

Maybe in 4.4.3 after GKH merges the Cc: stable@ tagged commits.

It does, however, have the bio splitting code removal in 532eb52, which
earlier releases do not.

-Eric

> >
> > Please test on your favorite branch and let us know how it goes.
> >
> > For those working from another branch, please see:
> > git log 2ef9ccbf~1..627ccd20
> >
> > and cherry-pick with
> > git cherry-pick 2ef9ccbf~1..627ccd20
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
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