linux-4.4.y-cip tree should be up-to-date with changes from 4.9.305 and older.
I believe it may be good time to do 4.4.x release; last release of 4.4.y-cip was at Feb 14, and 4.9.306 contains speculation fixes that are rather intrusive... so it may be good time to test that we did a good job on the easy changes.
I see. BTW, linux-4.4.y-st tree, do you have any idea to have a git tag? When merging into cip tree, I think the tags make it easier to manage. For example, create a tag the string contained in localversion-st file.
Good idea. I pushed the tag, v4.4-st5 . (I plan to keep the tag in sync with 4.9: 4.9.30X should correspond to v4.4-stX).
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