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From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS problem in 2.6.32
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:57:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEE9EDA.90001@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1106071239530.28905@asgard.lang.hm>

> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-07 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-07 12:46 XFS problem in 2.6.32 Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-06-07 13:36 ` Theodore Tso
2011-06-07 13:49   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-06-07 19:45     ` david
2011-06-07 21:57       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [this message]
2011-06-07 22:05         ` david
2011-06-08  3:28         ` Theodore Tso
2011-06-08  7:05           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-06-08  8:00           ` John Kacur
2011-06-08 13:38             ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-08 14:16               ` Mike Snitzer
2011-06-08 18:50                 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-08 21:01                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-08  9:03           ` Alan Cox
2011-06-08 13:30           ` Steven Rostedt
2011-06-09  2:57             ` Dave Chinner
2011-06-09  7:22               ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG

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