26 Mar
2024
26 Mar
'24
7:40 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:26:43AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 02:04:35AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
How did we end up backporting all these block layer API changes?
They were brought in as a dependency for 9674f54e41ff ("md: Don't clear MD_CLOSING when the raid is about to stop").
It's possible to work around bringing them during backport, but I preferred to bring the dependencies instead.
I really don't see what these giant backports bring us. If people want all the changes they'd just be better off on a modern kernel rather than these frankenkernels. The automatic backporting is gettind way out of hand. If the MD maintainers want 9674f54e41ff, maybe they can send a tailor made backport?