Am 01.11.2023 um 18:51 hat Michael Tokarev geschrieben: > 01.11.2023 18:38, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > Since this series is already merged in master, I'm not sure whether it's > > necessary to forward this particular patch to qemu-stable, or it should > > rather be cherry-picked to -stable by one of the block maintainers. > > It's been my job lately to pick something up for stable, once it gets > applied to master. But it is usually the patch author or subsystem > maintainer to mark a change as a candidate for -stable, - I can't decide > about every change out there, since I don't have enough expertise in > every area. You Cc: qemu-stable@ and I pick it up. I do look at stuff > being applied to master from time to time though, and ask if I see > something which might be worth to pick, as in this case.
I didn't even think about it for this patch, but yes, it sounds like a candidate for stable to me. > BTW, there's another change in this series which might be a good candidate > too, - "qemu-img: rebase: use backing files' BlockBackend for buffer > alignment". Once again, I dunno if it's worth to pick it up or not, > it's basically up to you to decide. Basically, you understand much > better what the implications are and if the change fixes actual bug. It's an optimisation, I wouldn't pick that one. Kevin