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backports: note about lot of backports
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That's not common.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <[email protected]>
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Around 125 patches related to MPTCP have been added to the different kernel
versions in February. 33 patches had to be adapted to older versions. 6 other
patches have not been backported, because the conflicts were too important, and
the issues they were fixing were not considered as serious enough.
the issues they were fixing were not considered as serious enough. That's a lot
of patches in once. These fixes were not urgent, and they have probably be
delayed due to some people travelling, and the Linux kernel project being
accepted as a [CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)](http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2024/02/13/linux-is-a-cna/)
for vulnerabilities found in Linux.


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