regarding kern/148655 fix for 8.1

[Andriy Gapon]

on 03/11/2010 18:22 Oliver Fromme said the following:
> Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I am not entirely sure why my question was understood as some kind of
>  > aggression, that was certainly not my intention.
>  > 
>  > > When is the fix getting backported from -STABLE to 8.1 as an errata fix?
>  > I think this a normal, valid question?
> 
> By asking "when" you imply that you expect it to be backported.
> You're not asking for it to be backported.  That's a difference.
> 
> Note that the PR was closed (already two months ago), which
> usually means that no further merges are planned.  If you want
> the patch to be merged to another branch, like releng/8.1,
> you should rather ask for it to be merged, not ask "when" it
> will be merged.  The likely answer to the latter might be
> "never".

Oliver made some good points overall, to which I might only add that such
decisions are made by Release Engineering team.
So a request like this should go to them (re@), not to a mailing list where
technical details of filesystem development and usage are typically discussed.

-- 
Andriy Gapon