Re: Uses of Linux backports in the industry

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

On 05/29/15 10:08, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 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.

Guess I don't need to mention OpenWrt is using it, right?

Gr. AvS

>>> 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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