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

[Thomas Voegtle]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Greg KH wrote:

> 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"?


Puhh, I would love to do the backport but I had a quick look at the patch
series and that is beyond my scope, I'm afraid. I'm a tester ;)

If there are no plans I know I have to move to a newer kernel, sadly.


   Thomas