[dm-devel] [PATCH stable 5.10 1/3] block: look up holders by bdev

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 01:19:09PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> This is very different from the upstream version, and forces the change
> onto everyone, not just those who had CONFIG_BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED
> enabled like was done in the main kernel tree.
> 
> Why force this on all and not just use the same option?

I'm really worried about backports that are significantly different
from the original commit.  To the point where if they are so different
and we don't have a grave security or data integrity bug I'm really not
very much in favor of backporting them at all.