On 17/04/2018 14:19, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.16-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to stable@vger.kernel.org and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.
There are people compiling with -Werror. You can omit it, but really I sometimes wonder if stable-kernel-rules.rst should be perused in the same way as the GNU coding standards. Most patches that are "auto-selected" these days are (at least for KVM) exactly the "This could be a problem..." type of thing that is singled out as _not_ stable-worthy.
Paolo