From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.62]:61704 "EHLO mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751854AbbE2Qly (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2015 12:41:54 -0400 Message-ID: <556896CF.4040005@broadcom.com> (sfid-20150529_184200_429178_CA08E43A) Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 18:41:51 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: "backports@vger.kernel.org" , Julia Lawall Subject: Re: Uses of Linux backports in the industry References: (sfid-20150529_045521_094351_3FF15D30) <1432882836.2104.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> <55681E76.4070401@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <55681E76.4070401@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html