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Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:25:17 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 01:01:44PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The other option to consider would be to revert the backport of the attr
> changes to stable kernels. I'm not sure what Greg's stance on this is
> but given that crun versions in -testing already include that fix that
> means all future Debian releases will already have a fixed crun version.

I will be glad to revert a change in a stable tree that is also reverted
in Linus's tree, but to just "delay" a change getting into the tree,
that's not ok (either the change is good or not.)

thanks,

greg k-h