Re: stable policy w.r.t. simple opt-ins?

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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


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