[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] Process issues, device model, stable

[Paul Gortmaker]

On 12-06-19 12:52 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:54:29PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 20:45 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>>
>>>  - Stable kernel releases, mostly in the same areas as everyone else
>>>    has been mentinoning though with a different set of distributions and
>>>    users in mind to most.
>>>
>>>    I do keep wondering if it's worth providing a way to flag up
>>>    non-bugfix backports to distros and other people maintaining older
>>>    kernels.  I relatively often find myself with fixes that definitely
>>>    don't meet the stable kernel critera but which realistically I'd
>>>    expect anyone deploying with older kernels to want to grab along with
>>>    their hardware enablement stuff (which is a separate issue).  I think
>>>    this might be part of why people aren't bothering so much as they
>>>    might with tagging things for stable.
>>
>> I've wondered if we should create a 'unstable' branch ;-)  That is, a
>> stable + things that most distros backport.
> 
> That's what the LTSI project is trying to do:
> 	http://ltsi.linuxfoundation.org/
> So far, it's primarily embedded board support patches going into its
> kernel, as that's the people who are paying attention to it.

We've started staging some initial v3.5 feature backports onto v3.4
in yocto; things like the seccomp/BPF and CODEL:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-kernel-cache/commit/?id=ce99c8289a21f7f8cfeef6f5c05ce8c0e6ae938a
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-kernel-cache/commit/?id=701905ded521dc4b27fd34a1d97af6317c7403dc

Once the 3.4 LTSI git patch repo is started, we'd definitely like
to move things like the above over to it.

Paul.
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> 
> I'd recommend using that first, before wanting to create
> yet-another-tree.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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