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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 07:45:48 +0100
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: Patch "tunnels: Don't apply GRO to multiple layers of
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 03:09:28AM +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the following patch was backported to the following LTS kernels
> 
> - >=4.4.29
> - >=3.16.35
> 
> 
> however it is missing from LTS kernels
> 
> - linux-4.1
> - linux-3.18

3.18 is (or should be), end-of-life now (Sasha, can we just kill it?
Please?)

4.1 is a bit slower release cycle, and again, Sasha will speak to that.

thanks,

greg k-h