Re: [PATCH 5.10 033/238] md: implement ->set_read_only to hook into BLKROSET processing

[Song Liu]

Hi Li Nan,

Could you please look into this (back port 9674f54e41ff to older stable
kernels)? If there is no clean back port, I would recommend we not do
the back port.

Thanks,
Song

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:40 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:26:43AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 02:04:35AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> How did we end up backporting all these block layer API changes?
> >
> > They were brought in as a dependency for 9674f54e41ff ("md: Don't clear
> > MD_CLOSING when the raid is about to stop").
> >
> > It's possible to work around bringing them during backport, but I
> > preferred to bring the dependencies instead.
>
> I really don't see what these giant backports bring us.  If people
> want all the changes they'd just be better off on a modern kernel
> rather than these frankenkernels.  The automatic backporting is
> gettind way out of hand.  If the MD maintainers want
> 9674f54e41ff, maybe they can send a tailor made backport?