22 Apr
2019
22 Apr
'19
3:27 p.m.
On 4/21/2019 7:34 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:19:45AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
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Hi Greg/Sasha,
Please queue up these powerpc patches for 4.4 if you have no objections.
why? Do you, or someone else, really care about spectre issues in 4.4? Who is using ppc for 4.4 becides a specific enterprise distro (and they don't seem to be pulling in my stable updates anyway...)?
We (NXP) received questions from customers regarding Spectre mitigations on kernel 4.4. Not sure if they really need them as some systems are enclosed embedded ones, but they asked for them.
Thanks, Diana
I'll be glad to take these, just want to make sure that someone actually will use them :)
thanks,
greg k-h