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

Guenter Roeck
2024-01-26T16:46:46Z

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.
>
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> zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@bytedance.com>
> 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.

Guenter