On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 04:20:59PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 09:03:29AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > virtio_blk: eliminate anonymous module_init & module_exit > > > > to the 5.17-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > virtio_blk-eliminate-anonymous-module_init-module_ex.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > I don't see how this patch qualifies for stable. > Yes it's probably harmless but you never know > what kind of script might be parsing e.g. System.map > and changing that in the middle of stable seems > like a bad idea to me. I don't think that's a good reason to reject it, but I do think it doesn't fit with "fixes a bug" requirements. I'll drop this, and the other module_init patches from the stable queue now. thanks, greg k-h
