25 Jan
2018
25 Jan
'18
4:35 p.m.
Just wanted stable maintainers to note that Jim, Paolo & myself decided eventually to revert this commit along with commit ae1f57670703 on upstream KVM. However, it is true that this commit makes commit ae1f57670703 more complete. Therefore we have 2 options here:
- Apply this backport and sometime in the future also apply the reverts of
both these commits with Paolo's commit which reverts them.
Being "bug compatible" is good, I like that option :)
It's not even a bug, just different behavior and in the end it turns out to be less surprising if we revert. So even better. :)
When is the revert patch going to hit Linus's tree? During the 4.16-rc1 merge window?
It's already there, commit ac9b305caa. But since this one was not marked for stable, ac9b305caa wasn't either.
Paolo