On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:27 AM Kevin Grittner <kgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the help of VMware's Dirk Hohndel (VMware's Chief Open Source > Officer, a VP position near the top of the organization, and a > personal friend of Linus), I have been fortunate enough to make > contact directly with Linus Torvalds to discuss this issue. In emails > to me he has told me that this patch is no longer provisional: > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fff75eb2a08c2ac96404a2d79685668f3cf5a7a3 > > Linus has given me permission to quote him, so here is a quote from an > email he sent 2019-01-17: > > That commit (b4678df184b3: "errseq: Always report a writeback error > > once") was already backported to the stable trees (4.14 and 4.16), so > > yes, everything should be fine. We did indeed miss old errors for a > > while. Sorry, but somehow I got the parent link rather that the intended commit. Linus got it right, of course. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b4678df184b314a2bd47d2329feca2c2534aa12b > -- > Kevin Grittner > VMware vCenter Server > https://www.vmware.com/ -- Kevin Grittner VMware vCenter Server https://www.vmware.com/
