Re: [PULL] Re: bcache stability patches

From: Eric Wheeler
Date: Thu Jan 07 2016 - 21:02:58 EST


On Wed, 30 Dec 2015, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On 12/30/2015 08:15 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:59:39AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Looking over these, most are really simple one-liners, and nothing sticks
> > > out as being overly complicated. Kent, do you have any plans to maintain
> > > the
> > > in-kernel bcache?
> >
> > Yeah - these patches are all fine, go ahead and pull.
>
> Great, thanks.
>
> > I may start doing maintainence again at some point (but if there's someone
> > willing to step up and take over and do a good job of it, I'd gladly hand
> > things
> > off)

We use this in production internally, so I'll keep collecting patches and
may ask for pulls from time to time.

> As long as we have a path into mainline for stability fixes, at least that's
> better than before.
>
> Thanks Eric for collecting these. I've reformatted some of them a bit, not
> sure if that's github crappery, or if they came like that. It's pushed out
> now.

You're welcome. It could be github crappery, however, these were
copy-pasted and cleaned up in various ways such that they merge into
3.17-rc1 and then merge forward into 4.1.15 which we build against---so
who knows about formatting, whitspace, and other minor issues. I'm just
glad they are on their way to 4.5 with stable@ Cc's!

BTW, can someone suggest an alternate git host with less crappery?

-Eric

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