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charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 23, 2026, Yosry Ahmed wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 2:55=E2=80=AFPM Sean Christopherson wrote: > > > > Convert all bare WARN() and WARN_ON() runtime usage, i.e. WARNs that ar= en't > > strictly scoped to module init/exit, or similar, to ONCE() variants for= what > > should be fairly obvious reasons at this point. >=20 > Do you wanna CC stable? Not really? Maybe? I worry that this will generate an absurd number of co= nflicts and also have "misses" in older kernels, to the point where it oculd do mor= e harm than good. I could be convinced this should be tagged for stable@, though honestly it = might be better to omit the automatic backport trigger and just rely on someone t= o "manually" provide equivalent patches.