[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v5 6/8] NX 6

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 01:46:42PM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 11:42:51PM +0100, speck for Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 15:52 +0200, speck for Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > 
> > I've started trying to backport the NX patches to stable branches, and
> > I think I can take them back as far as 4.9.
> 
> Thanks for taking up the backporting. If you would like we can also
> backport some remaining versions. Once you have the backports available,
> we can help with testing.
> 
> FYI.. Intel is doing the TAA backporting (LTS/stable kernels till 4.14)
> and want to base them on NX.

Why just till 4.14?  Do you not care about 4.9 and 4.4 anymore?

It's fine if you all don't, just need to know this as there are people
who still do :(

Or, if they aren't relevant for those older kernels, that's good to know
as well and I'll not worry about them.

thanks,

greg k-h