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It’s been pulled also from 4.19.38 (and beyond) as well as 4.14.120 (and beyond).


Lost a lot of respect for the Linux devs due to this story - this is just stupid fuckery due to hurt egos or whatever. Droping that API in 5.0+ fine - but backporting the removal of the non-GPL API in -stable kernels?


absolutely, at the point they backported an API breaking change to the LTS branch was the point they lost the benefit of the doubt




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