Re: [PATCH 3.10 090/180] xfs: xfs_iflush_cluster fails to abort on error

[Willy Tarreau]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 07:18:26AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Seriously, guys, pick up your act a bit and start talking between
> > yourselvesi and tracking regressions and fixes so the burden of
> > catching known reported and fixed problems with backports doesn't
> > rely on the upstream developers noticing the problem when hundreds
> > of patches for random stable kernels go past on lkml every week...
> 
> We definitely do exchange quite a bit and I pick patches from 3.14 for
> 3.10, but sometimes I can simply pick the original one for various
> reasons (eg: I if had queued its upstream ID earlier). That's also why
> the review process helps. I'm sincerely sorry that I failed on this one
> and that you had to deal with it again, I'm going to fix it now.

I've just checked, and this time I correctly picked the patches from
3.14, so much that I have the faulty one (this one) and its fix (patch
100/180). Admittedly I can merge them together so that if someone wants
to pick it alone they're not left with a broken patch.

Willy