Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753458AbaBYStO (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:49:14 -0500 Received: from silver.sucs.swan.ac.uk ([137.44.10.1]:46944 "EHLO silver.sucs.swan.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752769AbaBYStN (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:49:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:49:10 +0000 From: Sitsofe Wheeler To: Jeff Layton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim McDonough , David Disseldorp , Steve French , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Stable backport of cifs nlink workaround? Message-ID: <20140225184901.GA6397@sucs.org> References: <20140225152443.GA15552@sucs.org> <20140225161156.GA27235@kroah.com> <20140225094306.63cccecb@corrin.poochiereds.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140225094306.63cccecb@corrin.poochiereds.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:43:06AM -0800, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:11:56 -0800 > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 03:24:43PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > > > > > Is there any chance that 74d290da476f672ad756634d12aa707375d3564d > > > ([CIFS] Provide sane values for nlink) could be backported to the stable > > > 3.2 kernel? > > > > Why just 3.2? What's wrong with all of the other kernels before 3.12 > > that do not have this patch in it? > > Yeah, you'd probably need to apply it to every stable kernel > 3.2 or > you'd technically have a regression. I've no real objection to putting > that fix in, but backporting to older kernels may not be trivial. There > have been other changes in this area over the years... There's no reason why it should only be 3.2 only - the only reason I picked that one is because it is the current Debian stable kernel. -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/