On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 01:39:18PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Newer x86 CPUs support the XSAVE instruction which allows new features > to be added to user space with very trivial enabling (which could at > least theoretically be allowed at boot time, although we currently don't > have such an option.)| > > In your opinion, are those kinds of patches appropriate for stable?
Sure, that sounds like a "new device id" to me, right? As long as the patches are "trivially correct", I don't have an objection to adding them to stable kernels. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
