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charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 04:51:06PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 08:52:33AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 08:03:25PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> > Hi Greg, Sasha, >> > >> > Could you backport upstream commit >> > de19055564c8f8f9d366f8db3395836da0b2176c ("Documentation: Document arm64 >> > kpti control") to the stable 4.9, 4.14 and 4.19 kernels since they all >> > support the command line parameter. >> >> Hey Florian, >> >> We don't normally take documentation patches into stable trees. > >Normally we do not, but this is simple enough I've queued it up for 4.19 >and 4.14. Are you sure it is ok for 4.9? If so, Florian, can you >provide a backported version of it? My objection to taking documentation patches is either that we take all of them, or we take none. If we take only select documentation fixes it makes a frankenstein Documentation/ directory that might cause more harm than benefit. Let's say I'm looking for netfilter documentation on 4.19, can I trust linux-4.19.y or do I look upstream? Right now I know I have to look upstream, but if we tell people it's okay to trust the linux-4.19.y docs then we might be causing harm to our users when some fixes were backported but corresponding documentation fixes weren't. -- Thanks, Sasha _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel