From: Jianmin Wang <jianmin@iscas.ac.cn>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, dzickus@redhat.com,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jianmin@iscas.ac.cn,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
omosnace@redhat.com, smueller@chronox.de, stable@vger.kernel.org,
steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] backports: crypto user - make NETLINK_CRYPTO work
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 13:14:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210409131457.51384-1-jianmin@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG/11xcauoPY0sn+@kroah.com>
On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 08:36:07 +0200, Greg KH
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 07:11:48PM +0000, Jianmin Wang wrote:
> > while the new services need to invoke libkcapi in the container environment.
> >
> > We have verified that the problem doesn't exist on newer kernel version.
> > However, due to many services and the cluster running on many server machines
> > whose host os are long-term linux distribution with linux 4.19 kernel, it will
> > cost too much to migrate them to newer os with newer kernel version. This is
> > why we need to fix the problem on linux 4.19.
>
> But this is not a regression, but rather a "resolve an issue that has
> never worked for new hardware", right?
>
> And for that, moving to a new kernel seems like a wise thing to do to
> me because we do not like backporting new features. Distro kernel are
> of course, free to do that if they wish.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
I understand. Thank you for your review and response.
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Email: Jianmin Wang <jianmin@iscas.ac.cn>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-09 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-09 11:11 [PATCH] crypto: user - make NETLINK_CRYPTO work inside netns Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-07-09 14:38 ` Herbert Xu
2019-07-09 15:28 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-07-09 16:14 ` Herbert Xu
2019-07-26 12:32 ` Herbert Xu
2021-04-05 13:55 ` [PATCH] backports: crypto " Jianmin Wang
2021-04-05 16:14 ` Greg KH
2021-04-08 19:11 ` Re: [PATCH] backports: crypto user - make NETLINK_CRYPTO work Jianmin Wang
2021-04-09 6:36 ` Greg KH
2021-04-09 13:14 ` Jianmin Wang [this message]
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