On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 03:25:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The timer_stats feature was removed upstream by: > > commit dfb4357da6ddbdf57d583ba64361c9d792b0e0b1 > Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Feb 8 11:26:59 2017 -0800 > > time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS > > I'm hesitant to propose removing a feature in stable, even if it is > redundant. What I've done for Debian stable is to restrict it to the > initial pid namespace (see attached). Would that be a reasonable > alternative change for stable branches? I don't mind removing things in stable as that's what happened in Linus's tree, and it was removed for a reason. We've done it before, and I'm more hesitant to apply something that works a bit "differently". Kees, any objection for me just taking the "full" patch in the stable kernels? thanks, greg k-h