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Message-ID: <2025021115-backlands-violin-5f91@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:19:03 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, netfs@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6.13] fs/netfs/read_pgpriv2: skip folio queues without
 `marks3`

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Max Kellermann wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Note this patch doesn't apply to v6.14 as it was obsoleted by commit
> > > e2d46f2ec332 ("netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one
> > > work item").
> >
> > Why can't we just take what is upstream instead?
> >
> > Diverging from that ALWAYS ends up being more work and problems in the
> > end.  Only do so if you have no other choice.
> 
> Usually I agree with that, and I trust that you will make the right decision.

I defer to the maintainers of the subsystem here to make that decision,
as they are the ones that will be getting my "FAILED" backport emails
when things fail to backport due to this being out-of-tree :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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