linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsis: Initial commit of IBM VSCSI Tgt Driver

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Message-ID: <20160614145552.GA18075@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:55:52 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Cc:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>,
	Bryant G Ly <bryantly@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	martin.petersen@...cle.com, tyreld@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	mchehab@....samsung.com, jslaby@...e.com, joe@...ches.com,
	bp@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	bgly <bgly@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsis: Initial commit of IBM VSCSI Tgt Driver

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:23:52PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> AFAICT, the problem with this improvement is that it's not stable
> material, which means that Canonical would have to carry this separately
> beyond linux-4.4.y, in order to support ibmvscsi-tgt.

So who cares?  If they have a business interest in backporting the
driver they'll need to figure out a way.  None of that should matter in
any way whatsover for mainline.