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Date:   Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:03:23 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Add support for ECDSA-signed kernel modules
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On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 09:58:29AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> 
> On 6/9/21 8:44 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 08:32:59AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > On 6/3/21 2:47 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > 2.29.2
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > Please instead send a fix.
> > > We have a Fixes tag in 1/2, so we want this to propagate to older kernels
> > > and need the fix in 1/2 for that reason.
> > > 
> > >  ?? Stefan
> > So please do an additional fix and send it.
> 
> 1/2 is supposed to propagate to older kernels and needs to change as posted
> here in v5 (assuming that this does indeed fix what the build bot was
> complaining about). 2/2 also changes. A fix on top of v4 would fix 2/2 but
> won't apply cleanly to 1/2 as cannot easily propagate to older kernels. Is
> that what we want? Why can you not remove v4 from your queue and replace it
> with v5?
> 
> ?? Stefan

What you can do is to send fix or fixes with appropriate fixes tags and
I can then squash them for appropriate patches. That's less work for me.

/Jarkko