Re: XFS problem in 2.6.32

[david]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:

> > whoever the maintainer of the -stable/-longterm tree is (be it an
> > individual or a team employeed by some comapny) then looks at the patch
> > and considers backporting it (if it's too hard, or to intrusive, they
> > may decide not to).
> So i have to contact Greg Kohan from SUSE directly?

if he's the maintainer of the longterm tree, then yes, you would contact 
him or the stable mailing list.

> > the idea of the lonterm kernels is that organizations need to maintain a
> > kernel for a long time due to commitments that they have made (Debian
> > doesn't want to change the kernel it ships in a stable version, RedHat
> > doesn't want to change the kernel version in a RHEL release, etc), and
> > so they publicly announce this so that anyone else wanting to use the
> > same kernel version can share in the work (and therefor everyone can
> > benifit from each other's work)
> That was what i thoght. So a bug like this should get fixed right? Otherwise 
> this makes no sense. Sadly Redhat has ported the fix back in his RHEL 6 
> 2.6.32 kernel but they haven't send the patch to stable / vanilla team.

it depends on how intrusive/disruptive the patch is.

David Lang
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