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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Luis R. Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: XFS patches for stable
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:08:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181202200819.GA3932@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181202161016.GA27696@infradead.org>

On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 08:10:16AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As someone who has done xfs stable backports for a while I really don't
> think the autoselection is helpful at all.

autoselection for xfs patches has been turned off for a while, what
triggered this email thread was a core vfs patch that was backported
that was not obvious it was created by the xfs developers due to a
problem they had found.

> Someone who is vaguely familiar with the code needs to manually select
> the commits and QA them, which takes a fair amount of time, but just
> needs some manual help if it should work ok.
> 
> I think we are about ready to have a new xfs stable maintainer lined up
> if everything works well fortunately.

That would be wonderful news.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-02 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20181129060110.159878-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2018-11-29  6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 20/35] exec: make de_thread() freezable Sasha Levin
2018-11-29  6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 25/35] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 12:14   ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-29 12:47     ` Greg KH
2018-11-29 22:40       ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-30  8:22         ` Greg KH
2018-11-30 10:14           ` Sasha Levin
2018-11-30 20:35             ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-11-30 21:50             ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-01  7:49               ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-01  9:09                 ` XFS patches for stable Amir Goldstein
2018-12-02 15:25                   ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-02 16:10                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-02 20:08                       ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-12-03 14:41                         ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-03 16:56                           ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-02 23:23                 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 25/35] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF Dave Chinner
2018-12-03  7:11                   ` Amir Goldstein
2018-12-03  9:22                   ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-03 21:23                     ` Thomas Backlund
2018-12-04  7:28                       ` Greg KH
2018-12-04  8:12                       ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-28  8:06                       ` Pavel Machek
2018-12-29 23:35                         ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-30 21:45           ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-02 20:11             ` Greg KH

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