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From: 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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On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.

What distros are stuck on 4.8 that are not going to be moving to 4.9
within a week or so that you care about?

thanks,

greg k-h