Comment 8 for bug 1929060

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Frank Heimes (fheimes) wrote :

Hi WEZH, well if commits are provided here, we expect that they make up the functionality described by the title and bug description, and can be taken as they are (cherry-picked) - and in case not a backport would be needed.

We cannot just (kind of blindly) pick all the commits up to a certain date - it's (very) unlikely that this will be acceptable by our kernel team (who reviews all submissions in detail).

What's required (for a patch here, or for an sru) is a minimal set of patches that make up a logical functional unit (like here at the title: "Add User-defined EID (Enterprise ID) Support").
The code also needs to be upstream accepted (that's the case here) and in case of s390x code, it needs to be signed-off by you (actually by IBM, at the commit level - as usual), pre-tested - there must be confidence about the patch set - and the willingness to help maintaining it.

Please notice that we discuss adding code to an upcoming LTS release that will need to be supported by up to 10 years.