Re: [PATCH blktests] loop/011: skip if running on kernel older than v6.10

Hi!

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According to www.kernel.org, the 6.9 stable branch is already EOL. Is it planned
to backport the kernel fix to other longterm branches?

I just checked this commit 5f75e081ab5c ("loop: Disable fallocate() zero and discard
if not supported") hasn't been backported to any of the longterm stable kernel yet.
However I don't know if there's any plan to backport it on longterm stable kernel.

The patch will not apply into older branches since the in kernel API did
change, so I suppose that nobody will invest into rewriting the patch
since it's mostly cosmetic.

Maybe, Cyril should know about it? 

If not planned for backport on longterm stable kernel then we may consider the
proposed changes in loop/011 as-is.

That's strange, I got an email shortly after the patch got into
mailinine about the backport:

Subject: Patch "loop: Disable fallocate() zero and discard if not supported" has been added to the 6.9-stable tree
Reply-To: stable@vger.kernel.org

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    loop: Disable fallocate() zero and discard if not supported

to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     loop-disable-fallocate-zero-and-discard-if-not-suppo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.



commit 6718aa792b7d297ece53024a138ea679e8153ea6
Author: Cyril Hrubis [off-list ref]
Date:   Thu Jun 13 18:38:17 2024 +0200

    loop: Disable fallocate() zero and discard if not supported


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