Re: [RFC PATCH v2] x86/boot: add .sbat section to the bzImage

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 08:35:14PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> No, all will not be fine, because stable branches exist, so it would
> not be _one_ kernel version but N, with monotonically increasing
> values of N. That doesn't work, and the reason for that are explained
> in the protocol documentation that was linked in the initial mail.

Lemme give Peter's example from earlier today:

Bugfix A -> number 2
Bugfix B -> number 3

Tree backports only Bugfix B. Which number do you use?

And so on and so on. 

Patch your own trees - this doesn't belong upstream.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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