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I don't follow Red Hat all that closely anymore, but they have had a long standing policy of back porting changes to kernels. In fact, this is part of why they'
by josho 13y ago
I don't follow Red Hat all that closely anymore, but they have had a long standing policy of back porting changes to kernels. In fact, this is part of why they've been successful in enterprise: RH provides long term support on a stable kernel that receives key fixes from upstream kernel versions.
- Sanddancer 13y agoThe problem is that this wasn't a bug fix, but a behavior change. Worse, it's an undocumented behavior change. This is the sort of thing that can and should be documented.
- mmmooo 13y agoYep, and/or not back-ported.