On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:50:10 -0700 > Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> > > I'm not sure it's a good idea to put this patch into any stable release > just yet. I think it's a correct and necessary fix, but it has some > potential to cause regressions too (or uncover other preexisting > problems with this code). Might it be best to wait until we have some > more experience with this before we push it into stable?
Delaying it a little is probably ok, but weigh that against the frequency/severity of the problem that Pavel's fix addresses: ie sequential writes to some versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista can fail partway through large file copy (which also causes those servers to become unresponsive to subsequent connection requests as well) so the fix does address a hot problem. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
