On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:02:26 -0600
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
On 08/29/2013 10:33 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
Strange, it appears on your pull request... But anyway, your series
made it into 1.6.0, so I think we'll need the missing patch in 1.6.1 too?
There's no user in 1.6 (or would we have a build failure) because I
didn't merge blockdev-add, so I guess it doesn't matter.
I won't say it's a huge deal, but any downstreamers basing on 1.6 will
have a hard time if they backport blockdev-add or any future command
that my depend on this.
Any downstreamers that plans to backport blockdev-add would also
backport this as part of their efforts. I don't see that as any
different from any other backport effort that includes requiring
multiple non-contiguous pre-req patches.
Backport work can be hard. I'd praise people for making it easier
for me and would curse people for making it harder for no reason.
We don't need it on the 1.6
stable tree, and downstream is no worse for the wear.
Why is the feature there in the first place then?