On 17/04/2018 14:19, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.16-stable tree. > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. > > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be > seen again. There are people compiling with -Werror. You can omit it, but really I sometimes wonder if stable-kernel-rules.rst should be perused in the same way as the GNU coding standards. Most patches that are "auto-selected" these days are (at least for KVM) exactly the "This could be a problem..." type of thing that is singled out as _not_ stable-worthy. Paolo