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On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 04:21:01PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Please just send a new version with the relevant issues addressed.
> The last comment clearly didn't even bother to figure out that nearly
> all LTSes return -EINVAL for the combination. 5.10 and 5.15 fail as well
> but are broken because apparently they didn't get the actual backport
> years ago. They die in December. And upstream doesn't care about
> Back-To-The-Future Frankenstein kernels.

We don't care in the code itself.  We absolutely do care aboout
discoverable APIs without pitfalls.