>>> On 16.05.18 at 16:53, <dunl...@umich.edu> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: >>>>> On 16.05.18 at 15:18, <dunl...@umich.edu> wrote: >>> If the latter, I think the same argument applies: turning on XPTI is a >>> requirement for many people, and thus represents a pretty hefty >>> performance regression. While we don't need to backport normal fixes >>> to security-only releases, we should certainly try to avoid >>> regressions. >> >> I don't think we would have addressed non-security fallout (or other >> than really severe regressions) from other security patches in the >> past on security only branches. People caring about performance >> should upgrade. > > If a security patch, when backported to 4.6, broke some fairly > critical bit of functionality (say, openvswitch support), you would > oppose a subsequent patch which would fix that regression? > > That doesn't seem very reasonable to me. Users shouldn't have to > choose between being vulnerable to a security issue and losing > functionality which was working at the last release. Otherwise, > what's the point of having "security supported" releases?
Note how I did say "or other than really severe regressions". I think your "fairly critical bit of functionality" falls into exactly that area. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
