2016-09-15 11:51 GMT+03:00 Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Yes, but allowing new HW to work properly in older kernels was an exception or at least so I thought. > If here is a new minor version of the e1000 ethernet device which needs a few tweaks to > function on older kernels, do you not accept patches for that? Why not add patches in you package and rebuild? I do this things often and does not have any problems. You can use Fedora corp or opensuse build service... -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx -- 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