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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Florian Fainelli References: <8cf503db-ac4c-a546-13c0-aac6da5c073b@broadcom.com> <20210218165104.GC2013@sasha-vm> <00b9e2fb-d818-58d6-edae-4dbd6aa814f7@gmail.com> From: Florian Fainelli Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:57:16 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 Thunderbird/78.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210218_125724_065325_F627E08E X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 17.68 ) 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 , BCM Kernel Feedback , LKML , Linux ARM , Scott Branden Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 2/18/2021 9:53 AM, 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? I did not know whether the commitment/plan to use a given LTS kernel had to be funneled through the Linux Foundation and then down to you, but I am happy that this can be done publicly via a mailing list instead. > > 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? Right, that is straight forward, works for me! -- Florian _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel