From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:36813 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752189AbbE2HAj (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2015 03:00:39 -0400 Message-ID: <1432882836.2104.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20150529_090040_772261_8AB015ED) Subject: Re: Uses of Linux backports in the industry From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "backports@vger.kernel.org" , Julia Lawall Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 09:00:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20150529_045521_094351_3FF15D30) References: (sfid-20150529_045521_094351_3FF15D30) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -lkml, that list is overfull anyway ... On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 19:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Me and Julia are working on a paper which evaluates use of Coccinelle > on backports, a preliminary draft of such paper can be found on github > [0]. We are making some tweaks to this, one of which is covering the > uses of Linux backports [1] in the industry, for this we'd like to try > to get feedback as to where and how folks are using backports. Please > let me and Julia know -- or if the information is not sensitive please > feel free to just reply to this thread and share with others. All > feedback is greatly appreciated. If you are OK in having us list or > generalize your usage please indicate so. We've just published one of our internal git trees that is actually based on backports: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/ johannes