Re: Patch "module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed 10-01-18 11:31:37, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:11:49AM +0100, Libor Pechacek wrote:
> > Greg,
> > 
> > I appreciate the notifications about patch moves. They make my life easier.
> > However, I don't understand how this change qualified for -stable. The issue
> > does not look serious enough to me to pass the criteria described in
> > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst and I don't see which other patch
> > may require this one in v4.4.111.
> > 
> > What is the background for including this patch in -stable, please?
> 
> This patch fixes an issue, and was a "good enough" fix that at least one
> distro has been shipping it in their kernel for a long time.  So I
> figured it would be good for everyone to benifit from the bugfix, not
> just a tiny subset of the 4.4 kernel users :)

Oh, fairness is a strong argument. However, I'm unhappy to hear that our
community is tiny part of Linux user base. ;-)

> Hope this helps,

Indeed it does. Thanks!

Libor
-- 
Libor Pechacek
SUSE Labs



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]