Re: [STABLE 4.9.y PATCH 0/9] Backport of KVM Speculation Control support

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > I've put together a linux-4.9.y branch at
> > http://git.infradead.org/retpoline-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linux-4.9.y
> 
> 
> Are there any plans for a backport to v4.4?
> 
> I would volunteer for testing ;)

Care to volunteer to do the backport?  :)

Why do you need/want this type of thing for 4.4.y?  What is keeping you
from moving to 4.9.y instead?  Or even better yet, 4.14.y or 4.15, where
everything is fixed "correctly"?

thanks,

greg k-h