From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50586 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755646AbeAHHyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2018 02:54:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:54:25 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Diego Elio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Petten=F2?= Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold Subject: Re: Request for inclusion in stable of 4307413256ac1e09b8f53e8715af3df9e49beec3 Message-ID: <20180108075425.GD24062@kroah.com> References: <20180107081531.GA9509@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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