Re: Backporting bugfixes

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On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:06 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
+AD4- Hello+ACE-
+AD4- 
+AD4- I have noticed that there have been important fixes for btrfs in the  
+AD4- mainline Linux git repository.  However, there is just one btrfs fix  
+AD4- in Linux 3.12.5 after 3.12.
+AD4- 
+AD4- I think it's important to submit all serious bugfixes to the stable  
+AD4- kernels.  It would protect users against data corruption and improve  
+AD4- the image of btrfs as a serious filesystem that can be trusted at  
+AD4- least with semi-important data.
+AD4- 
+AD4- This post was inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/577218/ and
+AD4- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show+AF8-bug.cgi?id+AD0-1028750
+AD4- 

Hi Pavel,

We do tag some commits for stable, but Dave Sterba actually just sent a
request to the stable tree to pull in a few more.

-chris

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