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by alilleybrinker 605 days ago
Right. A huge part of the value proposition of enterprise kernels is the stability, which you pay a cost for in the form of backporting and maintenance. That’s the thing that makes it valuable as a product!

It really can’t be the policy of the upstream to restrain enhancements because they might make backports harder. Companies get paid, and paid well, to do those backports! Let them be responsible for that burden.