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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 12:32:48 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: sched/fair: Fix fixed point arithmetic width for shares and
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Greg KH, on Sun 08 Jan 2017 12:29:18 +0100, wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 09:38:36PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Please backport
> > commit ab522e33f91799661aad47bebb691f241a9f6bb8
> > ('sched/fair: Fix fixed point arithmetic width for shares and effective load')
> > to 4.8.
> 
> As 4.8-stable is about to go end-of-life on Monday (tomorrow),

Ah Ok.

> can't you just use 4.9 instead?

I can, but we have users which use various distributions. But since 4.8
goes end-of-life, I guess no distribution will use it and the problem is
indeed moot.

Thanks,
Samuel