From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
lwn@lwn.net, jslaby@suse.cz, shuah@kernel.org,
patches@kernelci.org, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org,
pavel@denx.de, jonathanh@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: Linux 4.4.256
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 18:20:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCFy7ot/xo427FX4@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210208171453.GA174128@roeck-us.net>
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 09:14:53AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 09:22:44AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > > There are lots (35) of "KERNEL_VERSION(4, 5, 0)" in chromeos-4.4.
> > > That should not matter with the clamped LINUX_VERSION_CODE, but
> > > I'd prefer to clamp KERNEL_VERSION as well just to be sure. On
> > > top of that, some of the vendor code we carry along does check
> > > SUBVERSION, but that is probably more of an academic concern.
> >
> > Ah, the internal checks, I think the other patch by Sasha will let that
> > get bigger and should work for you as well. Can you try it out?
> >
> Quite frankly I like the "complete" fix much better, but then I dislike
> deviating from stable releases even more. I'll use Sasha's version.
We will backport the "complete" fix soon when it hits Linus's tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-08 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-05 14:26 Linux 4.4.256 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-05 14:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-05 20:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-06 13:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-06 13:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-06 13:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-06 13:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-06 13:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-06 16:59 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-06 18:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-06 18:49 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-07 8:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-08 17:14 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-08 17:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-02-08 9:09 ` David Laight
2021-02-08 9:38 ` David Laight
2021-02-08 9:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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