Hi Li Nan,
Could you please look into this (back port 9674f54e41ff to older stable kernels)? If there is no clean back port, I would recommend we not do the back port.
Thanks, Song
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:40 AM Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de wrote:
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?