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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:50:18 +0200
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [stable] Removing or restricting timer_stats
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 03:25:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The timer_stats feature was removed upstream by:
> 
> commit dfb4357da6ddbdf57d583ba64361c9d792b0e0b1
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Date:���Wed Feb 8 11:26:59 2017 -0800
> 
> ����time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS
> 
> I'm hesitant to propose removing a feature in stable, even if it is
> redundant.  What I've done for Debian stable is to restrict it to the
> initial pid namespace (see attached).  Would that be a reasonable
> alternative change for stable branches?

I don't mind removing things in stable as that's what happened in
Linus's tree, and it was removed for a reason.  We've done it before,
and I'm more hesitant to apply something that works a bit
"differently".

Kees, any objection for me just taking the "full" patch in the stable
kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h