On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 08:51:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped that patch (others > > > > complained about it for other reasons) and will push out a -rc2 with > > > > that fix. > > > > > > > > > > I did wonder why the offending patch was included, but then I figured that > > > I lost the "we apply too many patches to stable releases" battle, and I didn't > > > want to re-litigate it. > > > > I usually much rather take prerequisite patches rather than do > > backports, which is why that patch was selected. > > Unfortunately, that results in less useful -stable. Not at all, it makes for a _MORE_ useful stable, as we want to mirror what is in Linus's tree whenever possible. Come on now, we've been doing this for 17+ years now, it's not new. greg k-h
