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