From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request for inclusion in stable of 4307413256ac1e09b8f53e8715af3df9e49beec3
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:54:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180108075425.GD24062@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHcsgXTFt6hy05OYR-EP1OJ1JZn66J2eoJx0CpTYxvXnftKP3A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 11:51:14AM +0000, Diego Elio Petten� wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Patches have to be in Linus's tree before they can be accepted into any
> > stable kernel release, please read:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > for the rules of all of this.
>
> I was hoping rules could be bent a bit, since this is a single device
> ID, and the timing (both in the -rc cycle and with KPTI) makes it
> particularly awkward O:)
A single device id is not worth breaking the rules for, sorry.
You are going to be updating your kernel a bunch more times over the
next months, due to all of this mess, this id will trickle in at
sometime during all of that, don't worry...
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-08 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-06 19:44 Request for inclusion in stable of 4307413256ac1e09b8f53e8715af3df9e49beec3 Diego Elio Pettenò
2018-01-07 8:15 ` Greg KH
2018-01-07 11:51 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2018-01-08 7:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
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