linux-kernel - Re: XFS patches for stable

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Date:   Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:08:19 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Luis R. Chamberlain" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: XFS patches for stable

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 patch that was backported
that was not obvious it was created by the xfs developers due to a
problem they had found.

> 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.
> 
> I think we are about ready to have a new xfs stable maintainer lined up
> if everything works well fortunately.

That would be wonderful news.

thanks,

greg k-h