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

[Greg KH]

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.

thanks,

greg k-h