On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 09:22:48AM -0500, David Lechner wrote: > It's just fixing a theoretical problem, not one that has actually > caused problems for people. The stable guidelines I read [1] said we > shouldn't include fixes like that. > [1]: https://docs.kernel.org/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > So, sure it would probably be harmless to include it without the > other dependencies. But not sure it is worth the effort for only > a theoretical problem. The written stable guidelines don't really reflect what's going on with stable these days at all, these days it's very aggressive with what it backports. Personally I tend to be a lot more conservative than this and would tend to agree that this isn't a great candidate for backporting but people seem OK with this sort of stuff.
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