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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: stable: Add rule on what kind of patches
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To:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
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From:   Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
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Hi,

On 22.12.2022 14:56, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 12/22/22 16:16, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>> The list of rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones
>> are not into the “-stable” tree, did not mention anything about new
>> features and let the reader use its own judgement. One may be under the
>> impression that new features are not accepted at all, but that's not true:
>> new features are not accepted unless they fix a reported problem.
>> Update documentation with missing rule.
>>
> 
> Are there any other examples of problems that can "only" be solved by
> introducing new features? Or new huge features that are virtually
> harder to backport?
> 

Here's an example:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20221222083545.1972489-1-tudor.ambarus@linaro.org/