Re: Uses of Linux backports in the industry

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 05/29/15 09:00, Johannes Berg wrote:
> -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.

We use the backports project solely for testing. We build and test 
nightly for a number of lab machines. Some are running recent 
wireless-testing kernel, but a number of those run a relatively old FC19 
kernel (3.11.1) for which we build backport brcm80211 drivers. We do 
that for our internal tree and for the wireless-testing tree.

>> If you are OK in having us list or
>> generalize your usage please indicate so.

Go ahead and make your list ;-)

Regards,
Arend

> 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
>
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