On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: >Hi Greg, > >On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > >I'm a little confused as to why this is being backported, given it >wasn't Cc'd stable or marked as a fix. > >The lm_alias() helper was only introduced in v4.10, and I don't recall >seeing that backported. > >What's going on here? Mark, We are experimenting with using neural network to aid with patch selection for stable kernel trees. There are quite a few commits that were not marked for stable, but are stable material, and we're trying to get them into their appropriate kernel trees. -- Thanks, Sasha