linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mtd tree with the vfs-brauner tree

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Message-ID: <2131754563.27779.1698751840800.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:30:40 +0100 (CET)
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mtd tree with the vfs-brauner
 tree

Christian,

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Christian Brauner" <brauner@...nel.org>
>> >> A side effect of 1bcded92d938 ("mtd: block2mtd: Convert to
>> >> bdev_open_by_dev/path()")
>> >> is that it fixes the problem too. That's a good thing.
>> >> 
>> >> I'm a bit puzzled how to fix the problem for 6.5.y and 6.6.y stable releases.
>> >> Back porting 1bcded92d938 seems risky to me since the commit is large.
>> >> On the other hand, ff6abbe85634 will not make it into Linus' tree and therefore
>> >> is not suitable for stable either.
>> > 
>> > Yes, that's one of the cases where stable rules make life harder for actual
>> > fixes... You can try pushing ff6abbe85634 to stable even if it is not
>> > upstream since it fixes a real bug and taking the upstream solution is
>> > indeed IMO too intrusive. Sometimes stable maintainers accept such fixes.
>> 
>> Yep, let's try this route. :-)
> 
> Is there anything for me to do? IOW, do I need to grab that patch or
> not? :)

No, just keep Jan's patch. (-:

Miquel, we could also keep ff6abbe85634 in the mtd tree and explain Linus the
conflict, what do you think? That would help with back porting to stable.

Thanks,
//richard