Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] performance walnuts

On Thu, 7 Mar 2019, speck for Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 12:32:52PM -0600, speck for Mark Hatle wrote:
> > As painful as it is, we (and others) have customers on ancient kernels with no
> > way to upgrade for a variety of technical, regulatory and business reasons.  But
> > we don't expect you to start digging up old kernel and applying patches back.
> 
> And all of those kernels are almost guaranteed to be vulnerable to _WAY_
> more than just this simple issue, unless they happen to also be taking
> the stable/LTS kernel updates (or they are running a well-supported
> "enterprise" kernel).
> 
> So while it is fun for people to want to claim they "need" these
> patches, what they really "need" is to fix those
> technical/regulatory/business "reasons" to not ensure that they are
> guaranteeing they will always have broken systems.

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