Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
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This tree generates two relatively simple conflicts with your tree: So what annoys me about these conflicts is that I'm not convinced that the stable tree actually *uses* your fancy x86/pti branch? I think stable ends up working like a patch-queue anyway due to how Greg works and all his helper scripts, so the whole "let's keep a branch for pti" ends up being of dubious advantage when it results in conflicts on merging, and it's not the same commits in the end anyway.