Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: send: fix failures when processing inodes with no links

From: David Sterba
Date: Thu Aug 18 2022 - 09:52:01 EST


On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 10:36:38PM +0800, bingjing chang wrote:
> > I seriously doubt that those 4 commits are the only dependencies in
> > order to be able to cleanly backport to 4.9 and other old branches.
> >
> > It may be better to backport only to a few younger stable branches, or
> > just provide later a version of the patch to
> > apply to each desired stable branch (once the fix is in Linus' tree
> > and in a -rc release).
> >
> > If you are not interested in backporting to stable or don't have the
> > time to verify the dependencies and test, then just remove all the
> > stable tags.
> > Just leave a fixes tag:
> >
> > Fixes: 31db9f7c23fbf7 ("Btrfs: introduce BTRFS_IOC_SEND for btrfs send/receive")
>
> Since backporting is not our goal. I will just leave the fix tag here.

This Fixes: points to the original send patch, so that's not really
useful, otherwise if there's a target stable release where the patches
still apply cleanly, or with minimal conflicts it's sufficient to add a
CC: stable tag it's good to have it.