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From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:36:38 -0700

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
>> That's why I vote to check out if it's possible/reasonable to backport this
>> series to the stable kernels.
> I have backported to 4.0.y without major issue, so possible.
> 
> I did try on 3.1x and gave up.
> 
> It is a lot of changes,  so I don't think it is a good idea for -stable.

I am absolutely, firmly, against any of this work going into -stable.

It is completely inappropriate, the potential for regressions is
enormous.