Re: i.MX 3.10.31-1.1.0_beta release - community feedback requested

[Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>]

Am 21.08.2014 01:04, schrieb Lauren Post:
> Our policy is to be at LTSI kernel which is 3.10.31  http://ltsi.linuxfoundation.org/

Oh, another longterm stable tree. Thanks for enlighten me.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Holler [mailto:holler@ahsoftware.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:54 PM
> To: Post Lauren-RAA013; meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] i.MX 3.10.31-1.1.0_beta release - community feedback requested
>
> Am 18.08.2014 17:32, schrieb Lauren Post:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to i.MX6 and don't use yocto, so pelase forgive me if I ask a maybe stupid question.
>
>> 	-  Kernel upgrade to 3.10.31
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> 3.10.y is already at 3.10.52. Is there any reason why the current stable version of the longterm 3.10.y branch isn't used as a base?
>
> Because I've run into a problem with 3.10.17 which was fixed with
> v3.10.22 (december last year) I've recently rebased those 1200+ patches myself on top of 3.10.52, without any problems (took me around 15 minutes to solve 3 conflicts, testing excluded). So merging the current stable version of 3.10.y, if prefered, should be equally easy.
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> My understanding of the stable trees is that they are especially used to provide security fixes (besides bugfixes). So I don't really understand why about 20 minor releases of maybe import fixes are ignored.
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> Regards,
>
> Alexander Holler
>