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

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sat Jun 23 04:41:46 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:54:25PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 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.

That sounds good to me, it will be a few weeks before I get 3.4 LTSI
started up, we are trying to get 3.0 LTSI out the door...

greg k-h


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