From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754107AbaIHPc5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:32:57 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:42815 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753492AbaIHPcy (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:32:54 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 1SOcdMn1ehzflSr1v6yFh1f51DLJe+XBxcKo9Uf/VnVR 1410190045 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:27:24 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Peter Kieser Cc: Francis Moreau , Jens Axboe , Kent Overstreet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, stable Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] bcache changes for 3.17 Message-ID: <20140908152724.GB32677@kroah.com> References: <20140805043346.GF541@moria.home.lan> <53E10D48.1010700@kernel.dk> <53E7251B.3080305@kieser.ca> <540966BA.9030106@gmail.com> <20140905214532.GA30221@kroah.com> <540A44A3.5060502@kieser.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <540A44A3.5060502@kieser.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:17:55PM -0700, Peter Kieser wrote: > > On 2014-09-05 2:45 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >Just because a maintainer/developer doesn't want to do anything for the > >stable kernel releases does_NOT_ mean the code is > >"unstable/expreimental" at all. > > These are more bcache-ate-my-data unstable bugs. It's standard practice to > backport fixes that cause instability/data corruption to a 'stable' release > (otherwise, why would it be named 'stable')? That's fine, but it has nothing to do with what sounded like someone wanting to go back and mark an older kernel feature as "unsupported". greg k-h