Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:47:38 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [Stable-review] Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them). |
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 01:20:37PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > >>Do they need help from the community > >>instead to help define, implement, and maintain this for them? > > > >I think the answer is yes. > > > > to expand on this a bit. > > it's a lot easier to look at changelogs and see if a -stable or > -longterm update is relavent to your systems than it is to watch the > flood of merges to the latest kerenl and then figure out how to > backport them. BUt people who start up just compiling their own > kernels frequently become testers, if not contributers to the > kernel. If everyone only runs the distro kernels, then the upstream > kernel quality will suffer because nobody is testing it.
I totally agree.
> people running -longterm kernels on their productionsystems will not > be testing the llatest -rc kernel on those systems, but they are > likely to be more interested in watching and testng new kernel > releases (at least on lab machines) than people who just wait for > things to be backported to the distro kernel.
That's good to hear, hopefully the -longterm kernels are useful for them and their usage model. If not, please let me know.
greg k-h
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