Bug#838547: dm-writeboost: module fails to compile with kernel 4.8

Hi Stefan, I am Akira Hayakawa, the upstream maintainer of the kernel module. In dm-writeboost 2.2.6 which was released last weekend, I already fixed the issue https://github.com/akiradeveloper/dm-writeboost/commit/08b96fcad9d223aa80f9ac76ddb677e056066b48 I saw that dm-writeboost in Ubuntu is

Bug#838547: dm-writeboost: module fails to compile with kernel 4.8

Package: dm-writeboost Version: 2.2.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch Dear Maintainer, with kernel 4.8 the bi_rw element of the request queue struct was replaced by bi_op and bi_op_flags. The additional compat code en