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Message-ID: <a123d813-bdef-202d-2980-fb74c5a715e5@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:18:01 +0800
From: Li Nan <linan666@...weicloud.com>
To: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>, Li Nan <linan666@...weicloud.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 033/238] md: implement ->set_read_only to hook into
BLKROSET processing
在 2024/3/26 16:46, Song Liu 写道:
> Hi Li Nan,
>
> Could you please look into this (back port 9674f54e41ff to older stable
> kernels)? If there is no clean back port, I would recommend we not do
> the back port.
>
There are some conflicts to back port, which are not related to the
modification of this patch. If necessary, let me know and I can adapt and
send it :)
> Thanks,
> Song
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:40 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:26:43AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 02:04:35AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> How did we end up backporting all these block layer API changes?
>>>
>>> They were brought in as a dependency for 9674f54e41ff ("md: Don't clear
>>> MD_CLOSING when the raid is about to stop").
>>>
>>> It's possible to work around bringing them during backport, but I
>>> preferred to bring the dependencies instead.
>>
>> I really don't see what these giant backports bring us. If people
>> want all the changes they'd just be better off on a modern kernel
>> rather than these frankenkernels. The automatic backporting is
>> gettind way out of hand. If the MD maintainers want
>> 9674f54e41ff, maybe they can send a tailor made backport?
>
> .
--
Thanks,
Nan
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