On 13.11.2025 14:10, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 at 13:02, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 13.11.2025 13:49, Frediano Ziglio wrote: >>> --- a/CHANGELOG.md >>> +++ b/CHANGELOG.md >>> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a >>> Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) >>> for hypervisor mode. >>> >>> ### Removed >>> + - The install-time environment variable INSTALL_EFI_STRIP is no longer >>> + supported, xen.efi will is now always being stripped. >>> + >>> - On x86: >>> - GNTTABOP_cache_flush: it's unused on x86 and the implementation is >>> broken. >> >> That's the wrong "Removed" section, though. Moving it where you put it would >> be part of backporting (to 4.21) effort. >> > > I think there was discussion that should go to 4.21 as not stripping > cause issues with some firmware. > Should I move to 4.22 then ?
All patches should be against staging, which is 4.22 now. Anything against older branches either needs explicitly tagging as such (e.g. when no staging equivalent exists), or otherwise would need backporting from what went into staging. (The more that at this time of the release cycle I'm not sure this kind of change is still eligible for going onto the release branch. It may well need to wait for 4.21.1 now. But that's [mainly] Oleksii's call, whom you didn't even Cc.) Jan
