From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:06:24 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Thomas Backlund Cc: Sasha Levin , Dave Chinner , Greg KH , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Chinner , "Darrick J . Wong" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 25/35] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF Message-ID: <20181228080624.GA6341@amd> References: <20181129121458.GK19305@dastard> <20181129124756.GA25945@kroah.com> <20181129224019.GM19305@dastard> <20181130082203.GA26830@kroah.com> <20181130101441.GA213156@sasha-vm> <20181130215005.GP19305@dastard> <20181201074909.GC213156@sasha-vm> <20181202232302.GT19305@dastard> <20181203092241.GC235790@sasha-vm> <2de96c1b-c375-8eed-f934-df5cbcdcd5cc@mageia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2de96c1b-c375-8eed-f934-df5cbcdcd5cc@mageia.org> List-ID: --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon 2018-12-03 23:22:46, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Den 2018-12-03 kl. 11:22, skrev Sasha Levin: >=20 > >=20 > > This is a case where theory collides with the real world. Yes, our QA is > > lacking, but we don't have the option of not doing the current process. > > If we stop backporting until a future data where our QA problem is > > solved we'll end up with what we had before: users stuck on ancient > > kernels without a way to upgrade. > >=20 >=20 > Sorry, but you seem to be living in a different "real world"... I have to agree here :-(. > People stay on "ancient kernels" that "just works" instead of updating > to a newer one that "hopefully/maybe/... works" Stable has a rules community agreed on, unfortunately stable team just simply ignores those and decided to do "whatever they please". Process went from "serious bugs that bother people only" to "hey, this looks like a bugfix, lets put it into tree and see what it breaks"... :-(. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlwl2YAACgkQMOfwapXb+vJe+QCghsqA4dMCLDQ7cdQbA8J+SMQn HOcAn2x58gX5RDvYOE3QccxcmwUhxBtT =UkbG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--