Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? | From | Hanjun Guo <> | Date | Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:02:54 +0800 |
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On 2021/2/19 17:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> [...] >>> >>> I want to see companies _using_ the kernel, and most importantly, >>> _updating_ their devices with it, to know if it is worth to keep around >>> for longer than 2 years. I also, hopefully, want to see how those >>> companies will help me out in the testing and maintenance of that kernel >>> version in order to make supporting it for 6 years actually possible. >>> >>> So, are you planning on using 5.10? Will you will be willing to help >>> out in testing the -rc releases I make to let me know if there are any >>> problems, and to help in pointing out and backporting any specific >>> patches that your platforms need for that kernel release? >> >> We(Huawei) are willing to commit resources to help out in testing the >> stable -rc releases, and to help to backport patches for stable kernels. > > Wonderful! > >> 5.10 stable kernel will be used for openEuler [1] kernel and also inside >> Huawei. From customer's feedback, it's very important to see the stable >> kernel we used to be maintained for 6 years in the community, and we >> will use 5.10 kernel for at least 6 years, so we are willing to help >> you and help ourselves :) >> >> In specific, we will start from the testing work, using HULK robot >> (reports lots of bugs to mainline kernel) testing framework to test >> compile, reboot, functional testing, and will extend to basic >> performance regression testing in the future. > > Great! Do you all need an email notification when the -rc releases come > out for the stable trees, or can you trigger off of the -rc stable git > tree? Different CI systems work in different ways :)
We can trigger the test when you updated the -rc stable git tree, by monitoring new commits for the stable branches. So if you push all the commits at once for -rc stable branches, then our CI system can work well.
> > And if you can reply to the -rc release emails with a "Tested-by:" tag, > I will be glad to add that to the release commit when that happens to > show that you all have tested the release.
Thanks, will reply "Tested-by:" with -rc releases. We are working on setting up the test farm and will report the test results in a week.
> >> And we will start from ARM64 and X86 architecture first, and then extend >> to other platforms. > > That's a good start, the useful ones :) > >> For patch backporting, will send the bugfix patches (from mainline) >> we spotted, but I think this work may not doing in regular but will >> be triggered as needed. > > That's fine, it is not something that happens at a regular interval. > >> Does this sound good to you? > > Yes it does, thank you so much. > > greg k-h
Thanks Hanjun
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