netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/1] wireguard column reformatting for end of cycle

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Date:   Mon, 1 Jun 2020 13:33:46 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/1] wireguard column reformatting for end of cycle

Hi Dave,

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 12:00 PM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> This is going to make nearly every -stable backport not apply cleanly,
> which is a severe burdon for everyone having to maintain stable trees.

This possibility had occurred to me too, which is why I mentioned the
project being sufficiently young that this can work out. It's not
actually in any LTS yet, which means at the worst, this will apply
temporarily for 5.6, and only then on the off chance that a patch is
near code that this touches. Alternatively, it'd be easy enough to add
a Fixes: to this, just in case. I'll be sad but will understand if you
decide to n'ack this in the end, but please do consider first that
practically speaking this won't be nearly as bad as this kind of thing
normally is.

Jason