Re: [PATCH 00/27 5.10.y] Backport minmax.h updates from v6.17-rc6

Greg KH
2025-09-22T05:02:13Z

On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 09:37:02PM +0000, Farber, Eliav wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 10:17:00AM +0000, Eliav Farber wrote:
> > > This series includes a total of 27 patches, to align minmax.h of
> > > v5.15.y with v6.17-rc6.
> > >
> > > The set consists of 24 commits that directly update minmax.h:
> > > 1) 92d23c6e9415 ("overflow, tracing: Define the is_signed_type() macro
> > > once")
> >
> > But this isn't in 5.15.y, so how is this syncing things up?
> >
> > I'm all for this, but I got confused here, at the first commit :)
>
> It's a typo.
> It should be 5.10.y and not 5.15.y.
>
> > Some of these are also only in newer kernels, which, as you know, is
> > generally a bad thing (i.e. I can't take patches only for older
> > kernels.)
> >
> > I want these changes, as they are great, but can you perhaps provide
> > patch series for newer kernels first so that I can then take these?
>
> So you'd first like first to align 6.16 with 6.17, then 6.15 with 6.16,
> then 6.12 with 6.15, then 6.6 with 6.12, and so on until we eventually
> align 5.10 and even 5.4?

Yes please!