From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC9CC04EB8 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 20:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5442B2082F for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 20:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="EFz50pKj" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 5442B2082F Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725789AbeLBUIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2018 15:08:23 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54232 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725730AbeLBUIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2018 15:08:23 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E6C2020645; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 20:08:20 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1543781301; bh=lXVAzyeR+YutSAs+eU1y5NX5ScJc66P3X6XtnjTePV4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=EFz50pKj8uyGvgDaIsLPwFOwTjgIzWU3S9PjDdndYWdiTe+zSMZK/4yad814Fioja tMRI8rrd4kSX0j6h/1wXe9bQTW075ZZOoPt9uOySe4GnQRIBtWTpBfUru8V7I4mXF/ lHKJU096fnnP8y9+uGH/hh5BbLqasEtuul8MUYvU= Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:08:19 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Sasha Levin , Amir Goldstein , Dave Chinner , stable , linux-kernel , Dave Chinner , "Darrick J. Wong" , linux-fsdevel , linux-xfs , "Luis R. Chamberlain" Subject: Re: XFS patches for stable Message-ID: <20181202200819.GA3932@kroah.com> References: <20181129121458.GK19305@dastard> <20181129124756.GA25945@kroah.com> <20181129224019.GM19305@dastard> <20181130082203.GA26830@kroah.com> <20181130101441.GA213156@sasha-vm> <20181130215005.GP19305@dastard> <20181201074909.GC213156@sasha-vm> <20181202152547.GI221015@sasha-vm> <20181202161016.GA27696@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181202161016.GA27696@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.0 (2018-11-25) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 08:10:16AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > As someone who has done xfs stable backports for a while I really don't > think the autoselection is helpful at all. autoselection for xfs patches has been turned off for a while, what triggered this email thread was a core vfs patch that was backported that was not obvious it was created by the xfs developers due to a problem they had found. > Someone who is vaguely familiar with the code needs to manually select > the commits and QA them, which takes a fair amount of time, but just > needs some manual help if it should work ok. > > I think we are about ready to have a new xfs stable maintainer lined up > if everything works well fortunately. That would be wonderful news. thanks, greg k-h