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Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 13:58:00 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [5.4-stable PATCH 0/7] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible
 namespace alignment
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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:37:43PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hello stable team,
> 
> These patches have been shipping in mainline since v5.7-rc1 with no
> reported issues. They address long standing problems in libnvdimm's
> handling of namespace provisioning relative to alignment constraints
> including crashes trying to even load the driver on some PowerPC
> configurations.
> 
> I did fold one build fix [1] into "libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align'
> attribute" so as to not convey the bisection breakage to -stable.
> 
> Please consider them for v5.4-stable. They do pass the latest
> version of the ndctl unit tests.

What about 5.6.y?  Any user upgrading from 5.4-stable to 5.6-stable
would hit a regression, right?

So can we get a series backported to 5.6.y as well?  I need that before
I can take this series.

thanks,

greg k-h
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