Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsis: Initial commit of IBM VSCSI Tgt Driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:23:52PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> AFAICT, the problem with this improvement is that it's not stable
> material, which means that Canonical would have to carry this separately
> beyond linux-4.4.y, in order to support ibmvscsi-tgt.

So who cares?  If they have a business interest in backporting the
driver they'll need to figure out a way.  None of that should matter in
any way whatsover for mainline.