On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:15:18 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > It's just _if_ stable really gradually opens up to anything (like > > code removals, backports of new features, heuristically or AI > > selected patches, performance patches) it IMO loses its function > > and we could as well follow mainline, which, I think, is what you > > are recommending anyway. > > When code is removed from stable kernel versions, it is usually for > very good reasons, like what happened here. Sorry I can't go into > details, but you really wanted this out of your kernel, this was a > bugfix :) I don't remember the details, but look at netdev mailing archives for the discussion. It was something along the lines of the zero day bot found some pre-existing old bug in DECnet, and the consensus was the fixing a corpse was not worth doing.
