On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 05:58:08PM +0800, Yizhou Zhao wrote:
Dear Greg,
Thank you for the guidance.
I'm sorry, I don't have any context here. Remember, some of us get 1000+ emails a day and don't remember what we wrote in response a few hours ago :)
I'm sorry that I haven't explicitly stated that this should be a stable-only fix. DCCP was removed upstream in v6.16, so the issue cannot be fixed in mainline. I missed including that context in the original submission.
Why not remove dccp in older kernels as well?
Jakub confirmed that this fix may proceed as a stable-only patch for branches which still contain DCCP. [1]
Do you prefer that I submit a v2 explicitly marked as a stable-only fix? Just want to ensure I follow the expected process.
Yes, it needs to be blindingly obvious that a patch is "stable only" including the reason why in great detail.
But really, why not just do what is in mainline and remove dccp as obviously no one is actually using it anymore?
thanks,
greg k-h