On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:27 AM Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the help of VMware's Dirk Hohndel (VMware's Chief Open Source
> Officer, a VP position near the top of the organization, and a
> personal friend of Linus), I have been fortunate enough to make
> contact directly with Linus Torvalds to discuss this issue. In emails
> to me he has told me that this patch is no longer provisional:
>
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fff75eb2a08c2ac96404a2d79685668f3cf5a7a3
>
> Linus has given me permission to quote him, so here is a quote from an
> email he sent 2019-01-17:
> > That commit (b4678df184b3: "errseq: Always report a writeback error
> > once") was already backported to the stable trees (4.14 and 4.16), so
> > yes, everything should be fine. We did indeed miss old errors for a
> > while.
Sorry, but somehow I got the parent link rather that the intended
commit. Linus got it right, of course.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b4678df184b314a2bd47d2329feca2c2534aa12b
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