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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 08:40:28AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> Thanks, Greg.
> 
> Greg, Jarkko: Do either of you you have any objections to me
> backporting these changes to 4.4 and 4.9? I'd like to make sure that
> at least the couple most recent LTS kernels have this patch.

Why?  What bug does this solve?  If it meets the rules of
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt (or whereever that file moved to),
that's fine with me.

thanks,

greg k-h