linux-kernel - Re: [00/46] 2.6.31.5-stable review

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Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:12:41 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Massimo Cetra <mcetra@...ynet.it>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, stable-review@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	mpatocka@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [00/46] 2.6.31.5-stable review

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 07:20:36AM +0200, Massimo Cetra wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:57:51PM +0200, Massimo Cetra wrote:
> >   
> >> Greg KH ha scritto:
> >>     
> >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.31.5 release.
> >>> There are 46 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
> >>> this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let
> >>> us know.  If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants
> >>> to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Please consider adding this:
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/13/154
> >>
> >> and this:
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/430
> >>
> >> which definitely makes 2.6.31 unusable for virtualization with KVM and with 
> >> some block devices not supporting barriers.
> >>     
> >
> > Do you have git commit ids for these fixes?
> >
> >   
> No, sorry.
> 
> But maybe David Miller may help about this:
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/13/154
> 
> and the other should be this one:
> 
>   commit 52b1fd5a27c625c78373e024bf570af3c9d44a79
>   Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
>     dm: send empty barriers to targets in dm_flush

That commit is already in the 2.6.31 tree (it went into 2.6.31-rc1).

So there's not much I can do here :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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