On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:11:56 -0800 Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
