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Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 18:20:46 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 09:14:53AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 09:22:44AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > > There are lots (35) of "KERNEL_VERSION(4, 5, 0)" in chromeos-4.4.
> > > That should not matter with the clamped LINUX_VERSION_CODE, but
> > > I'd prefer to clamp KERNEL_VERSION as well just to be sure. On
> > > top of that, some of the vendor code we carry along does check
> > > SUBVERSION, but that is probably more of an academic concern.
> > 
> > Ah, the internal checks, I think the other patch by Sasha will let that
> > get bigger and should work for you as well.  Can you try it out?
> > 
> Quite frankly I like the "complete" fix much better, but then I dislike
> deviating from stable releases even more. I'll use Sasha's version.

We will backport the "complete" fix soon when it hits Linus's tree.

thanks,

greg k-h