Re: XFS problem in 2.6.32

Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-06-07T21:57:23Z

> whoever the maintainer of the -stable/-longterm tree is (be it an
> individual or a team employeed by some comapny) then looks at the patch
> and considers backporting it (if it's too hard, or to intrusive, they
> may decide not to).
So i have to contact Greg Kohan from SUSE directly?

> the idea of the lonterm kernels is that organizations need to maintain a
> kernel for a long time due to commitments that they have made (Debian
> doesn't want to change the kernel it ships in a stable version, RedHat
> doesn't want to change the kernel version in a RHEL release, etc), and
> so they publicly announce this so that anyone else wanting to use the
> same kernel version can share in the work (and therefor everyone can
> benifit from each other's work)
That was what i thoght. So a bug like this should get fixed right?
Otherwise this makes no sense. Sadly Redhat has ported the fix back in
his RHEL 6 2.6.32 kernel but they haven't send the patch to stable /
vanilla team.

Stefan