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Patch "ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option

to the 4.4-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:
ext4-correct-documentation-for-grpid-mount-option.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:43:33 -0500
Subject: ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
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From: Ernesto A. Fernández <[email protected]>

commit 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b upstream.

The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid.

---
 Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +1 -1
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ data_err=ignore(*)	Just print an error m
 data_err=abort		Abort the journal if an error occurs in a file
 			data buffer in ordered mode.
 
-grpid			Give objects the same group ID as their creator.
+grpid			New objects have the group ID of their parent.
 bsdgroups
 
 nogrpid		(*)	New objects have the group ID of their creator.

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ext4-correct-documentation-for-grpid-mount-option.patch