linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: send: fix failures when processing inodes with no links

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Message-ID: <20220818134643.GL13489@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:46:43 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     bingjing chang <bxxxjxxg@...il.com>
Cc:     Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...nel.org>,
        bingjingc <bingjingc@...ology.com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Robbie Ko <robbieko@...ology.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: send: fix failures when processing inodes
 with no links

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 10:36:38PM +0800, bingjing chang wrote:
> > I seriously doubt that those 4 commits are the only dependencies in
> > order to be able to cleanly backport to 4.9 and other old branches.
> >
> > It may be better to backport only to a few younger stable branches, or
> > just provide later a version of the patch to
> > apply to each desired stable branch (once the fix is in Linus' tree
> > and in a -rc release).
> >
> > If you are not interested in backporting to stable or don't have the
> > time to verify the dependencies and test, then just remove all the
> > stable tags.
> > Just leave a fixes tag:
> >
> > Fixes: 31db9f7c23fbf7 ("Btrfs: introduce BTRFS_IOC_SEND for btrfs send/receive")
> 
> Since backporting is not our goal. I will just leave the fix tag here.

This Fixes: points to the original send patch, so that's not really
useful, otherwise if there's a target stable release where the patches
still apply cleanly, or with minimal conflicts it's sufficient to add a
CC: stable tag it's good to have it.