On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 01:54:05 +0200 Vladimir Oltean wrote: > Yeah, I think Florian just wants netconsole to work in stable kernels, > which is a fair point. As for my 16-line patch that I suggested to him > in the initial reply, what do you think, would that be a "stable" > candidate? We would be introducing a fairly user-visible change > (removing one step that is mentioned as necessary in the documentation), > do you think it would benefit the users more to also have that behavior > change backported to all LTS kernels, or just keep it as something new > for v5.11?
Yeah, I'd think that's too risky for a backport.