From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: imran.f.khan@oracle.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.14, v4.19, v5.4, v5.10, v5.15] igb: free up irq resources in device shutdown path.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:13:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024042347-establish-maggot-6543@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28752189-6c59-4977-abda-2ea90577573f@oracle.com>
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 08:32:09AM +1000, imran.f.khan@oracle.com wrote:
> Could you kindly confirm if a backport that fixes an issue but breaks kernel ABI
> is allowed in stable tree ?
There is no such thing as a stable in-kernel api, so I don't understand
what you are asking here, sorry.
The only api that we ever care about is the user/kernel api, that can
not break.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-22 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-12 15:07 [PATCH v4.14, v4.19, v5.4, v5.10, v5.15] igb: free up irq resources in device shutdown path Imran Khan
2024-03-29 13:11 ` Greg KH
2024-04-22 22:32 ` imran.f.khan
2024-04-22 23:13 ` Greg KH [this message]
2024-04-22 23:49 ` imran.f.khan
2024-04-23 11:14 ` Greg KH
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