linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/286] 5.10.209-rc1 review

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:46:42 -0800
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: patches@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org,
 patches@...nelci.org, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/286] 5.10.209-rc1 review

On 1/22/24 15:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.209 release.
> There are 286 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
> 
> Responses should be made by Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:56:49 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
[ ... ]

> zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@...edance.com>
>      virtio-crypto: implement RSA algorithm
> 

Curious: Why was this (and its subsequent fixes) backported to v5.10.y ?
It is quite beyond a bug fix. Also, unless I am really missing something,
the series (or at least this patch) was not applied to v5.15.y, so we now
have functionality in v5.10.y which is not in v5.15.y.

Guenter