Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] stable kernel process automation and improvement

Greg KH
2019-07-08T15:06:46Z

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:50:45PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 07:05:44AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 7/8/19 5:37 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > I'm not sure how many people will actually report problems they
> > > experience upstream rather than just fixing things locally and
> > > just moving on. The more code is the more likely it is that one
> > > of the users will report things.
>
> > I for my part will most definitely report any such problems, since each
> > regression in stable releases is used as argument against merging
> > stable releases (even if the regression rate is negligible), and I am
> > very interested in getting that regression rate as close to zero as
> > possible. Reporting each and every regression is an essential part
> > of that.
>
> Me too - but I'm pretty sure for example most of the product
> teams I've worked with at consumer electronics companies would
> never even consider it.

Sweet, want me to come into those teams and give a presentation like I
did a few months ago for one major company entitled "all the ways your
kernel is insecure and trivial to break"?

I'll be glad to do so :)

thanks,

greg k-h