On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 11:51:14AM +0000, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Patches have to be in Linus's tree before they can be accepted into any > > stable kernel release, please read: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > for the rules of all of this. > > I was hoping rules could be bent a bit, since this is a single device > ID, and the timing (both in the -rc cycle and with KPTI) makes it > particularly awkward O:) A single device id is not worth breaking the rules for, sorry. You are going to be updating your kernel a bunch more times over the next months, due to all of this mess, this id will trickle in at sometime during all of that, don't worry... greg k-h