On 02/20/2014 01:49 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 01:39:18PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Newer x86 CPUs support the XSAVE instruction which allows new features >> to be added to user space with very trivial enabling (which could at >> least theoretically be allowed at boot time, although we currently don't >> have such an option.)| >> >> In your opinion, are those kinds of patches appropriate for stable? > > Sure, that sounds like a "new device id" to me, right? As long as the > patches are "trivially correct", I don't have an objection to adding > them to stable kernels. > OK. Will tag them for -stable. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html