-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Control: tag -1 -wontfix Control: reassign -1 linux
On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 09:10 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I'm adding debian-kernel to this reply, in case the policy has changed. > > It has never been as strict as you suggest, backports from mainline are > ok too (and always have been AFAIK) if justified. For especially urgent > or important fixes then "in a maintainers tree and so well on the way > to mainline" can be the minimum necessary bar. > Well. That is good then. > > If this fix gets included in the Linux 4.9 LTS tree upstream, then Debian > > would > > automatically pull it for Stretch inclusion. > > This is true too, but there's no particular need to wait for that > process to unfold. > > > But, at this moment, this isn't even in Linus's tree. > > Can you point to the commit in the relevant upstream kernel maintainer's tree? This should be the one: http://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git/commit/25a7c6f172af2a3187147c0ad4880c0968de3f02 - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEQCVDstmIVAB/Yn02pjpYo/LhdWkFAliNtYEACgkQpjpYo/Lh dWnH5w//VpCKHZMpjgeBq4WMgdjKcgHwZnJmz01tNxnjpddTcOqZf7HlHgS8a6Zo 2JZNAuzYlrxJD9yrIP7+Lk9hWuAXtOHfmFLhV9h2A3dmG43D0asII2dyVrukQrKZ Sm1JbkfyCnxK5H8nNgV+u25uEfU6cpFRScv2kdIAHKAdHhp3oNh2iqAJcvPlTZ6s DlgizhT02kgyT6fobVR02Jc8HNxMEV9LBS50Xt0exhXQ25Qtx1TJShqwM1vtKZn7 Qd11duDZSUH98Qw500n3RNXJdyPNGFN3xqJeKxVw4mhiZtUqD66kB+wlMu25vmSE 9YVJ3BinxGdetWH1cJrANxGLxksmic3UzbSRGbQ0fPjfJao5rQMxlQVK5A7w1jdJ jVSKV2Xtt4Trck5XKNPXtVMTEO+F4tgER8GXoxQ4kziMvyAhQGKQ+nobraKCnGWy zVJ5+PlDtEe8vT/XkFxqyc/H1H8svD4AQLm9bvzuLDYigPWCS0H1Lm++hv0B2Ubg 9bjiMCKCWlgpCI/USaY71omWjAnz6Lr/g3ZoQqw9FEvOmmmmZk4ijzjbTaY75Aku H8kJIHPz+JRXi35EthOXlMR6xRJlhRxCIYjj0C235Szdz5UgkFQMxauso8KzPQgq 5isLdzTrUklFC0/Tuub+Kbac7sHAfaNNBAKgH1nZlBAoeP6cMRE= =7w0f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
