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Ever since the stable-update process was created, there have been questions
about which patches are suitable for inclusion in those updates; usually,
these discussions are driven by people who think that the criteria should
be more restrictive. A regression in the XFS filesystem that found its way
into the 5.9.9
stable update briefly rekindled this discussion. In one sense, there was
little new ground covered in this iteration, but there was an interesting
point raised about the relationship between stable updates and the mainline
kernel -rc releases.