From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from er-systems.de ([148.251.68.21]:36770 "EHLO er-systems.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755283AbeBOKt6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2018 05:49:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:49:54 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Voegtle To: Greg KH cc: David Woodhouse , Paolo Bonzini , Jim Mattson , =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Radim_Kr=E8m=E1=F8?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, KarimAllah Ahmed , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [STABLE 4.9.y PATCH 0/9] Backport of KVM Speculation Control support In-Reply-To: <20180215102341.GA19398@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <1517938181-15317-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk> <20180215102341.GA19398@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, David Woodhouse wrote: >> >>> I've put together a linux-4.9.y branch at >>> http://git.infradead.org/retpoline-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linux-4.9.y >> >> >> Are there any plans for a backport to v4.4? >> >> I would volunteer for testing ;) > > Care to volunteer to do the backport? :) > > Why do you need/want this type of thing for 4.4.y? What is keeping you > from moving to 4.9.y instead? Or even better yet, 4.14.y or 4.15, where > everything is fixed "correctly"? Puhh, I would love to do the backport but I had a quick look at the patch series and that is beyond my scope, I'm afraid. I'm a tester ;) If there are no plans I know I have to move to a newer kernel, sadly. Thomas