Re: Backport request

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 23/04/2026 06:55, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 06:04:50PM +0100, Josh Law wrote:
>> Hello, I would like backports for 
>>
>> Mainline hashes:
>>
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8cdf30813ea8ce881cecc08664144416dbdb3e16
>>
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9003ec6f7f394943880618737d797a9f257e6e1e
> 
> None of those have showed up in an actual release yet, so why should
> they be included "early"?

None of the code was tested as Josh Law lied more than once about tests
[1] or laughed at us when we asked for testing:

"laugh my ass out and your test cases, absolutely ill add some test
cases" [2]

and then Josh Law was pushing his patches to get merged:

"This most definitely needs to be merged." [3]
"Yeah in my opinion I think this may need to be merged.. if you would
like I can add the NOWARN" [4]

And now we see a push for these commits to stable!

Nothing from Josh Law should be going to stable trees, because nothing
was ever tested.


[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/f8772114-a495-409b-a590-a9b1d8ed1d41@gmail.com/

[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/40767ecf-7e25-48f5-a604-c43b835b6b66@gmail.com/

[3]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/c41dbb9d-b8a5-4b5f-9f71-3fe1bed210b6@gmail.com/

[4]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/2760a688-0c0e-4f6e-b4ea-6d4fe7ecc6cb@gmail.com/

Best regards,
Krzysztof