Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:43:06 -0800 | From | Jeff Layton <> | Subject | Re: Stable backport of cifs nlink workaround? |
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:11:56 -0800 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 03:24:43PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any chance that 74d290da476f672ad756634d12aa707375d3564d > > ([CIFS] Provide sane values for nlink) could be backported to the stable > > 3.2 kernel? > > Why just 3.2? What's wrong with all of the other kernels before 3.12 > that do not have this patch in it? > > thanks, > > greg k-h
Yeah, you'd probably need to apply it to every stable kernel > 3.2 or you'd technically have a regression. I've no real objection to putting that fix in, but backporting to older kernels may not be trivial. There have been other changes in this area over the years...
-- Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
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