Re: request for inclusion of 04197b341f23 ("xfs: don't BUG() on mixed direct and mapped I/O")

Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-25T13:50:36Z

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:47:45AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Oh, and I need an ack from the xfs maintainers to be able to take this,
> there must be some reason they didn't backport it like they did for a
> number of other xfs patches...

In general we'd like to see xfstests runs for all stable backports,
because file system code is hairy.

So for any xfs stable backports please send the list of patches you
want backported, and tell us that you did indeed run xfstests. No
proof is required, we'd like to trust our contributors.