From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Cc: "kys@microsoft.com" <kys@microsoft.com>,
"haiyangz@microsoft.com" <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
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Srivatsa Bhat <srivatsab@vmware.com>,
Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] PCI: hv: Use vPCI protocol version 1.2 for v4.9
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:08:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190123120852.GA19317@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CDA15D0-3D01-42FA-84D6-83A3FB6E7A16@vmware.com>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:02:27PM +0000, Ajay Kaher wrote:
>
>
> On 23/01/19, 1:33 PM, "Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:08:29PM +0530, Ajay Kaher wrote:
> > For now, please consider these patches for review and
> > suggest if these can be merged to mainline kernel v4.9.
>
> Why do you care about 4.9.y? Shouldn't all of your systems be moved on
> to 4.14.y or better yet, 4.19.y, at this point in time? 4.9.y is
> _really_ old and obsolete and on the very cusp of "never run as a
> general-purpose system" functionality, if it's not already there.
>
> What is preventing you from upgrading the kernel on your systems to
> something more modern and secure?
>
> Yes Greg, we are working to move to latest Linux Kernel versions.
> But on other side, because of demands from our consumers we also need to support v4.9.
Why would a customer "demand" that 4.9 still be used? What is keeping
them from just moving to a newer kernel today? What is missing in 4.14
or 4.19 that only 4.9 has?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 15:38 [PATCH 0/3] PCI: hv: Use vPCI protocol version 1.2 for v4.9 Ajay Kaher
2019-01-23 8:00 ` Greg KH
2019-01-23 8:02 ` Greg KH
2019-01-23 12:02 ` Ajay Kaher
2019-01-23 12:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-01-23 15:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] PCI: hv: Allocate physically contiguous hypercall params buffer Ajay Kaher
2019-01-23 8:01 ` Greg KH
2019-01-23 15:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] PCI: hv: Add vPCI version protocol negotiation Ajay Kaher
2019-01-23 15:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] PCI: hv: Use vPCI protocol version 1.2 for v4.9 Ajay Kaher
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2019-01-17 20:47 [PATCH 0/3] " Ajay Kaher
2019-01-17 13:21 ` Greg KH
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