From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758742Ab1FGV5X (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:57:23 -0400 Received: from server655-han.de-nserver.de ([85.158.177.45]:45355 "EHLO server655-han.de-nserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750966Ab1FGV5W (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:57:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4DEE9EDA.90001@profihost.ag> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:57:46 +0200 From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: Theodore Tso , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS problem in 2.6.32 References: <4DEE1D96.6020208@profihost.ag> <6D8DA3D2-D90B-4D82-BDC9-C3F0264A68BF@mit.edu> <4DEE2C70.8060301@profihost.ag> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-User-Auth: Auth by s.priebe@profihost.ag through 85.158.179.66 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > whoever the maintainer of the -stable/-longterm tree is (be it an > individual or a team employeed by some comapny) then looks at the patch > and considers backporting it (if it's too hard, or to intrusive, they > may decide not to). So i have to contact Greg Kohan from SUSE directly? > the idea of the lonterm kernels is that organizations need to maintain a > kernel for a long time due to commitments that they have made (Debian > doesn't want to change the kernel it ships in a stable version, RedHat > doesn't want to change the kernel version in a RHEL release, etc), and > so they publicly announce this so that anyone else wanting to use the > same kernel version can share in the work (and therefor everyone can > benifit from each other's work) That was what i thoght. So a bug like this should get fixed right? Otherwise this makes no sense. Sadly Redhat has ported the fix back in his RHEL 6 2.6.32 kernel but they haven't send the patch to stable / vanilla team. Stefan