On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 09:50:46AM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On 09/05/2016 06:03 AM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.7-stable tree. > > > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. > > > > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to > > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be > > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be > > seen again. > > Hi Greg, > > We are about to switch to new version of GNU tools (gcc 6.x based) which > unfortunately has a non compatible ABI change - as described in the patch. > > Some of our customers are going to stick with older kernels and thus this helps > them upgrade to newer tools with their existing baseline kernels. That's nice, but it's a new feature. Stick with old userspace for older kernels, and use new kernels for new userspace if you so desire. We do allow some new gcc fixes to be backported, but that's always where we have found bugs, or build warnings. Not "we need to support gcc6 for old kernels", as really, if someone wants to update userspace, they don't update their kernel? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html