linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 28/78] nvme: have nvme_wait_freeze

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Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 21:35:37 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 28/78] nvme: have nvme_wait_freeze_timeout return if
 it timed out

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:34:27AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> [ Upstream commit 7cf0d7c0f3c3b0203aaf81c1bc884924d8fdb9bd ]
>>
>> Users can detect if the wait has completed or not and take appropriate
>> actions based on this information (e.g. weather to continue
>> initialization or rather fail and schedule another initialization
>> attempt).
>
>This does not fix any bug and is not needed in 4.19-stable. In the
>5.8-stable there are other patches that depend on that (which is
>probably why it was merged), but those are not present in 4.19.
>
>Please drop.

Right, now dropped. Thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha