On Wed, 02 Sep 2026, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 17:22:46 +0100 > Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So what happens when you receive the FAILED message? > > > > And why are you interested to know how far back a fix can be backported? > > > > Personally, I'm _very_ interested in a _small_ number of patches, but > > none of which usually emanate from subsystems I maintain. > > I'm interested because they only get backported to kernels that are > maintained for some reason. And since these are in my subsystem, I do like > to know that my code works for all supported kernel releases. ;-)
Well that's unusually conscientious of you. I like it. =:-) NB: Not that _you_ are unconscientious - I was referring to the rest of us! -- Lee Jones
