On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 04:23:23PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Maybe best to hold off on this patch. Saeed has majorly muddied the > waters, as far as I can tell. Here's what's going on: Thanks, I've now dropped it from the 5.15.y queue. > 1) Sasha reverted 97ef77c52b78 after it was reported in private that > this was backported without the surrounding required commits.* > 2) Saeed then sent a confusing message with some other backports. > 3) You've evidently picked up one of these. Yeah, my fault on adding just that one, I shouldn't have. > In the interest of sanity, I'd recommend ignoring all current patches > from Saeed, and then making sure 97ef77c52b78 is reverted in all > stable kernels. If later somebody (such as Saeed) backports the entire > sequence for you properly, great. If not, don't worry about it. I think it is already reverted in all stable kernels. I do not see any released kernel that it is still in, unless I missed one? > * Actually, what happened is that Oracle emailed me privately > complaining that my commit broke their kernel. They should have known better. Kernel development is done in public. Feel free to route stuff like that to /dev/null until they are willing to discuss it in public. thanks, greg k-h
