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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:47:56 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 25/35] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:14:59PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> Cherry picking only one of the 50-odd patches we've committed into
> late 4.19 and 4.20 kernels to fix the problems we've found really
> seems like asking for trouble. If you're going to back port random
> data corruption fixes, then you need to spend a *lot* of time
> validating that it doesn't make things worse than they already
> are...

Any reason why we can't take the 50-odd patches in their entirety?  It
sounds like 4.19 isn't fully fixed, but 4.20-rc1 is?  If so, what do you
recommend we do to make 4.19 working properly?

thanks,

greg k-h