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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: "backports@vger.kernel.org" <backports@vger.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: Uses of Linux backports in the industry
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 09:00:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432882836.2104.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6UUTmMMB0La3OFe+hXpaZzdAwTs0QKBsTLSyrsSMFxJRg@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20150529_045521_094351_3FF15D30)

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

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


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-29  2:54 Uses of Linux backports in the industry Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-29  7:00 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-05-29  8:08   ` Arend van Spriel
2015-05-29  8:29     ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-29 16:41     ` Arend van Spriel
2015-05-29 16:33   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-29 18:47     ` Johannes Berg
2015-05-29 14:53 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2015-05-29 15:01   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-29 17:36     ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-29 17:51       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-23 18:49       ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-24  9:12       ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2015-06-24  9:09     ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2015-06-24  9:19       ` Richard Weinberger
2015-06-24  9:55         ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2015-06-24 10:18           ` Richard Weinberger
2015-06-01 18:50 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-06-01 20:03   ` Julia Lawall
2015-06-24 10:13   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2015-06-02 19:05 ` Szymon Janc

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