Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.12 5/5] tty: vt: always invoke vc->vc_sw->con_resize callback

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 18 2021 - 09:34:19 EST


On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:22:48AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 07:45:59AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 06:35:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > [ Upstream commit ffb324e6f874121f7dce5bdae5e05d02baae7269 ]
> > >
> > > So I think the commit is fine, and yes, it should be applied to
> > > stable, but it's one of those "there were three different patches in
> > > as many days to fix the problem, and this is the right one, but maybe
> > > stable should hold off for a while to see that there aren't any
> > > problem reports".
> > >
> > > I don't think there will be any problems from this, but while the
> > > patch is tiny, it's conceptually quite a big change to something that
> > > people haven't really touched for a long time.
> > >
> > > So use your own judgement, but it might be a good idea to wait a week
> > > before backporting this to see if anything screams.
> >
> > I was going to wait a few weeks for this, and the other vt patches that
> > were marked with cc: stable@ before queueing them up.
>
> I'll drop it from my queue then.

Thanks!