linux-ext4 - Re: ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() question

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Message-ID: <20100127123424.GA5062@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:34:24 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() question

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:25:28AM -0800, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 27-01-10 09:53:39, Wu Fengguang wrote:

> > The patch includes a cleanup and a bug fix, both looks OK to me.
> > But if we can split it, the bug fix would be good candidate for
> > the stable kernel?
>   I don't think we want to push this to -stable kernel. As I wrote, this
> code is called only in case user is going to loose written data which is a
> bug on it's own so loosing a few page references is nothing compared to
> that.

Ah OK. Thanks for the patch.

Cheers,
Fengguang
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