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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:14:58 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 09:12:33AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2/16/23 9:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Looks good:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > 
> >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+
> > 
> > But why is this a stable candidate?
> 
> Only because the other patches depend on it.

But none of those is stable material either as I can tell.  It's
a fairly simple and nice to have enhancement, but not really a
grave bug or regression fix.