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Message-ID: <20171009132004.y6rale4k7oll3hab@thunk.org> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 09:20:04 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: "HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" <Weller.Huang@...bosch.com>, "George G. Davis" <george_davis@...tor.com>, "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Behme Dirk (CM/ESO2)" <Dirk.Behme@...bosch.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Ext4 support for LTS kernels (was: Re: [PATCH 3.14] ext4: fix data exposure after a crash) On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 01:05:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Fri 06-10-17 10:04:41, HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN) wrote: > > I checked the latest 3.14 source code 3.14.79. I didn't found the below patch. > > Well, I'm not sure who runs the 3.14 stable tree (it's not listed at > kernel.org). It's up to him to pick up patches... The announcement of 3.14's End of Life as a stable kernel series was announced in September 2016. As far as I know, the fact that 3.14 is no longer listed on kernel.org means that no one is maintaining 3.14 after Greg K-H declared it to be EOL'ed. On a side note, I just recently finished an effort to update the ext4 patches for 3.14, 4.1, 4.4, and 4.9. I've sent those backports and cherry pick requests to stable@...r.kernel.org. For details of my work, at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git There are testing notes in the signed git tags: ext4-4.9.54-1 - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.9.54-1 ext4-4.4.91-1 - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.4.91-1 ext4-4.1.44-1 - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-4.1.44-1 ext4-3.18.74-1 - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tag/?h=ext4-3.18.74-1 .... and on a "when Ted has time / interest basis", the ext4-3.18, ext4-4.1, ext4-4.4, and ext-4.9 branches in the above repo will be updated with a rebase against the latest LTS kernel and whatever patches are needed to minimize xfstests failures that haven't yet gotten accepted into the LTS kernel versions. Getting changes into android-common and/or various SOC's BSP kernels is left as an exercise to the reader. I suspect that at some point soon, when 4.14 becomes released and becomes a LTS kernel, I'm going to drop ext4-4.1 and replace it with ext4-4.14, since very few people seem to be using the 4.1 LTS kernel, and my time / effort is limited. If someone is interested in helping out, please contact me. - Ted
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