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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:10:44 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] ext4: remove timebomb in ext4_decode_extra_time()

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 10:11:15AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Changing behavior based on the version code is a timebomb waiting to
> happen, and not easily bisectable.  Drop it and leave any removal
> to explicit developer action. (And I don't think file system
> should _ever_ remove backwards compatibility that has no explicit
> flag, but I'll leave that to the ext4 folks).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted

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