From: Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@Hansenpartnership.com>,
"ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Stable trees and release time
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 15:29:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180905152942.GR16300@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809051717460.1416@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 05:19:59PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Sasha Levin via Ksummit-discuss wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:46:26PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> >On Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:41:56 +0200,
>> >Sasha Levin wrote:
>> >> So right now I'm lagging a few weeks behind upstream. If I limit it to
>> >> patches that are at least 1 month old will that help with your concerns?
>> >
>> >A few weeks after rc-release or the final release?
>> >If it's the latter, that should be fine.
>>
>> A few weeks after a given patch was merged upstream. The tricky part is
>> if I wait a month from final release then the relevant stable tree is
>> already EOL.
>
>If the thing is close to EOL then it wont get the next fix or worse the fix
>for the subtly broken one either. It really does not matter at all.
Given that we release a kernel every ~2 months and that the Stable tree
goes EOL a week or two after the next kernel is released, we will
essentially ignore half of the release cycle (in particular the -rc
ones, when more fixes come in).
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-04 20:58 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Stable trees and release time Laura Abbott
2018-09-04 21:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 14:31 ` Greg KH
2018-09-04 21:22 ` Justin Forbes
2018-09-05 14:42 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 15:10 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 15:10 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 16:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05 18:31 ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-05 21:23 ` Justin Forbes
2018-09-06 2:17 ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-04 21:33 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-04 21:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-04 22:03 ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-04 23:14 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-04 23:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05 1:17 ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-06 3:56 ` Benjamin Gilbert
2018-09-04 21:58 ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-05 4:53 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 6:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 8:16 ` Jan Kara
2018-09-05 8:32 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 8:56 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 9:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-05 9:33 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 10:11 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 14:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-05 9:58 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-05 10:47 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 12:24 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-05 12:53 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 13:05 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 13:15 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 14:00 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 14:06 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 21:02 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 16:39 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-05 17:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-09-05 17:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-05 13:03 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 13:27 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 14:05 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 15:54 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 16:19 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 16:26 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 19:09 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 20:18 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 20:33 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 14:20 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 14:30 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 14:41 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 14:46 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 14:54 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 15:12 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 15:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-05 15:29 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2018-09-05 13:16 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 14:27 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 14:50 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 15:00 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 10:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-05 11:20 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 14:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-05 15:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06 8:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-06 12:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-04 21:49 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-04 22:06 ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-04 23:35 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05 1:45 ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-05 2:54 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05 8:31 ` Jan Kara
2018-09-05 3:44 ` Eduardo Valentin
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