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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Willy Tarreau References: <8cf503db-ac4c-a546-13c0-aac6da5c073b@broadcom.com> <20210218165104.GC2013@sasha-vm> <00b9e2fb-d818-58d6-edae-4dbd6aa814f7@gmail.com> <20210218182050.GB15217@1wt.eu> From: Scott Branden Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:16:50 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210218_151659_314116_E7DB37D9 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 19.17 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Sasha Levin , Florian Fainelli , BCM Kernel Feedback , LKML , Linux ARM Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7183331172964309992==" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org --===============7183331172964309992== Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha-256; boundary="00000000000033a72605bba2040b" --00000000000033a72605bba2040b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >>>> As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not >>>> having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people >>>> like you, Greg and other participants in the stable kernel. >>> >>> What does the LF have to do with this? >>> >>> We are here, on the mailing lists, working with everyone. Just test the >>> -rc releases we make and let us know if they work or not for you, it's >>> not a lot of "coordination" needed at all. >>> >>> Otherwise, if no one is saying that they are going to need these for 6 >>> years and are willing to use it in their project (i.e. and test it), >>> there's no need for us to maintain it for that long, right? >> >> Greg, please remember I expressed I really need them for slightly more than >> 3 years (say 3.5-4) :-) I'm fine with helping a bit more as time permits if >> this saves me from having to take over these kernels after you, like in the >> past, but I cannot engage on the regularity of my availability. > > Ok, great! > > That's one person/company saying they can help out (along with what CIP > has been stating.) > > What about others? Broadcom started this conversation, odd that they > don't seem to want to help out :) Greg, I'm sorry but I'm not in a position to provide such a commitment. My original question arose because the 5.10 kernel is declared as 2 years LTS while older LTS kernels are now 6 years. One problem this has created is requests to provide silicon support in an older kernel version (for a new project) rather than starting from a newer kernel version that more properly supports the (silicon and non-silicon) features. If all LTS kernels were declared as 3.5-4 years as Willy commented this would solve a few issues. 6 year LTS kernels would only have a maximum 1 year lifespan over the latest declared LTS kernel. Also, many products take a year or more to develop, there isn't any life left in an LTS kernel if it is only 2 years. After 1-3 years of kernel age the relevant parties that want to invest and care about supporting specific kernel versions longer should become apparent and could commit to longer support. Perhaps you move the burden of 6 years LTS elsewhere to longer term projects. But, I'm sure many are happy because you continue doing such a great job in a central location, especially those whose product lifespan is around 6 years. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > --00000000000033a72605bba2040b Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature MIIQRQYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIIQNjCCEDICAQExDzANBglghkgBZQMEAgEFADALBgkqhkiG9w0BBwGg gg2aMIIE6DCCA9CgAwIBAgIOSBtqCRO9gCTKXSLwFPMwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAwTDEgMB4GA1UE CxMXR2xvYmFsU2lnbiBSb290IENBIC0gUjMxEzARBgNVBAoTCkdsb2JhbFNpZ24xEzARBgNVBAMT Ckdsb2JhbFNpZ24wHhcNMTYwNjE1MDAwMDAwWhcNMjQwNjE1MDAwMDAwWjBdMQswCQYDVQQGEwJC RTEZMBcGA1UEChMQR2xvYmFsU2lnbiBudi1zYTEzMDEGA1UEAxMqR2xvYmFsU2lnbiBQZXJzb25h bFNpZ24gMiBDQSAtIFNIQTI1NiAtIEczMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA tpZok2X9LAHsYqMNVL+Ly6RDkaKar7GD8rVtb9nw6tzPFnvXGeOEA4X5xh9wjx9sScVpGR5wkTg1 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