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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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