Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/286] 5.10.209-rc1 review

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On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 08:46:42AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 1/22/24 15:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.209 release.
> > There are 286 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:56:49 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >      virtio-crypto: implement RSA algorithm
> > 
> 
> Curious: Why was this (and its subsequent fixes) backported to v5.10.y ?
> It is quite beyond a bug fix. Also, unless I am really missing something,
> the series (or at least this patch) was not applied to v5.15.y, so we now
> have functionality in v5.10.y which is not in v5.15.y.

See the commit text, it was a dependency of a later fix and documented
as such.

Having it in 5.10 and not 5.15 is a bit odd, I agree, so patches are
gladly accepted :)

thanks,

greg k-h




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