Re: [cip-dev] 4.4.X-stable and 4.4.X-rt maintainance ends in less than two weeks

Masami Ichikawa
2022-01-20T02:27:39Z

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:12 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> It looks like stable 4.4.X maintainence ends real soon now:
> https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html . I talked to Greg and
> it seems like plan is to end it at the beggining of month, rather than
> end.
>

Thank you for asking the actual EOL date.

> That means we'll be on our own maintaining -cip and -cip-rt versions.
>
> To review our 4.4 branch:
>
> git log --pretty=oneline linux-4.4.y-cip-rebase
>
> We have 757 patches on top of 4.4.216, and there are some 14000
> patches between 4.4 and 4.4.216. Going forward, most new patches will
> come from upstream.
>
> We do some compile testing, but we only run run-time tests on two
> targets:
> https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-kernel/linux-cip/-/pipelines/448669210
> .
>
> Given that most of work we'll be doing will be maintaining -stable
> patches, anyway, I believe it would make sense to step up as official
> maintainers of 4.4.X-stable and 4.4.X-rt series. We'll need to do the
> work, anyway, keeping -stable and -cip split will not result in much
> overhead for us, and this way we'll get a lot of visibility for the
> project, and hopefully a lot of additional testing.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

I agree. The split -stable and -cip work sounds reasonable.
I think it would be helpful, if AUTOSEL system continues to pick
patches for 4.4 series.

> Best regards,
> Pavel
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