From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Cc: sashal@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: Patch "hostfs: convert hostfs to use the new mount API" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:10:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025020730-divisive-zap-2416@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <273cccc0-bbb1-4377-9ae6-a9c54ed64527@huawei.com>
On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 09:22:34AM +0800, Hongbo Li wrote:
>
>
> On 2025/2/6 11:54, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:09:17AM +0800, Hongbo Li wrote:
> > > Well, by the way, is the patch added because there are use cases for the new
> > > mount API in hostfs?
> >
> > I am sorry, I don't understand the question.
> >
>
> Sorry for my poor expression, I just wonder why this patch should be
> backported to the 6.6-stable tree. :)
Ah. It was a dependency for a patch later in the series, and was
documented as such with the "Stable-dep-of:" line in the commit.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2025-02-05 1:13 ` Patch "hostfs: convert hostfs to use the new mount API" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree Hongbo Li
2025-02-05 8:53 ` Greg KH
2025-02-06 1:09 ` Hongbo Li
2025-02-06 3:54 ` Greg KH
2025-02-07 1:22 ` Hongbo Li
2025-02-07 15:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
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