From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1XQwaa-0002I0-HY for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:54:29 +0000 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 12:53:59 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: Ubi patch proposition for 3.10.y Message-ID: <20140908105359.GB28903@1wt.eu> References: <1410170318.10764.119.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <20140908100453.GA28903@1wt.eu> <1410171221.10764.132.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1410171221.10764.132.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Cc: richard@nod.at, "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , jean-philippe francois , stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:13:41PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Well, adding stable tags is does not come for free. Whey you add a > stable tag, you need to make sure it applies to the older kernel, and > you need to also pick the possible dependencies. You need test it with > older kernel. > > While in general what you say makes sense, for this specific "fastmap" > case the maintainers (me and Richard) did not think the overhead is > worth the benefits. I understand and am not pressuring anyone to do the backport. Sometimes if something appears to be clearly broken, for example to the point where data corruption may result from the use of any feature, a patch to disable the feature or make it depend on CONFIG_BROKEN might be good as well to warn users they must not use it because it's too broken. Regards, Willy