Re: XFS patches for stable

2018-12-03 Thread Sasha Levin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 03:41:27PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 9:09 PM Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 08:10:16AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > As someone who has done xfs stable backports for a while I really don't > think the autoselection is helpful at

Re: XFS patches for stable

2018-12-03 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 9:09 PM Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 08:10:16AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > As someone who has done xfs stable backports for a while I really don't > > think the autoselection is helpful at all. > > autoselection for xfs patches has been turned off for

Re: XFS patches for stable

2018-12-02 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 08:10:16AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > As someone who has done xfs stable backports for a while I really don't > think the autoselection is helpful at all. autoselection for xfs patches has been turned off for a while, what triggered this email thread was a core vfs p

Re: XFS patches for stable

2018-12-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
As someone who has done xfs stable backports for a while I really don't think the autoselection is helpful at all. Someone who is vaguely familiar with the code needs to manually select the commits and QA them, which takes a fair amount of time, but just needs some manual help if it should work ok

Re: XFS patches for stable

2018-12-02 Thread Sasha Levin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 11:09:05AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: >> It's getting to the point that with the amount of known issues with XFS >> on LTS kernels it makes sense to mark it as CONFIG_BROKEN. > >Really? Where are the bug reports? In 'git log'! You report these every time you fix somethi

Re: XFS patches for stable

2018-12-01 Thread Amir Goldstein
> >> It's getting to the point that with the amount of known issues with XFS > >> on LTS kernels it makes sense to mark it as CONFIG_BROKEN. > > > >Really? Where are the bug reports? > > In 'git log'! You report these every time you fix something in upstream > xfs but don't backport it to stable tr