Re: XFS patches for stable

Greg KH
2018-12-02T20:08:23Z

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