On 01/09/2015 06:55 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 09.01.2015 um 22:38 schrieb Ezequiel Garcia: >> Hi Richard, >> >> On 11/24/2014 10:20 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>> Artem, >>> >>> as requested I'm resending my fastmap work in smaller pieces. >>> This is pile 1 of 7. >>> Rebasing my patches to ubifs.git was a massive PITA because the >>> logging style changes touched a lot of code and almost every patch >>> failed to apply and needed inspection by hand. >>> The first patches are bug fixes, the latter introduce cleanups >>> and new features. >>> After all bugfixes are mainline I'll make sure that all needed >>> fixes go into -stable. >>> >> >> Maybe it would be clearer if you could point out exactly which of these >> are considered bugfixes. > > All of Pile1, 2, 3 and 4. :-) > One or tow patches are preparations for the real fix but obviously you'll > need them > too. > The rest are enhancements and cleanups.
What do you mean by "the rest"? > As I wrote before I've structured the patch set in a way to make backporting > easy. > >> For bugfixes, having a detailed explanation of the problem the commit is >> meant to fix would be better as well. > > Okay, I'll add the horror stories to these patches. > I know it's a real pain, but if you can add a Fixes: tag, it would certainly help Artem track down the bug. The good thing is that you get the -stable hassle for free. >> This patchset seems to have stalled, so perhaps having this information >> would help Artem to pick the ones that you point as fixes, before we >> miss another cycle. > > The question is, shall I wait for Artem or resend again? Hm, well, given we are just a handful of developers, and we are all time constrained, maybe we could focus on the first two piles for now: Pile 1, November 24, https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/324 Pile 2, November 30, https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/30/50 > Most patches are completely unseen. > Well, those two piles look reviewed and tested to me. -- Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur www.vanguardiasur.com.ar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
