From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com>,
lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Filesystem backporting to stable
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 16:37:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230301053748.GL2825702@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y/6u5ylrN2OdJm0B@magnolia>
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 05:48:23PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Another knot that I think we need to slice through is the question of
> what to do when support for LTS kernels becomes sparse. Case in point:
>
> Oracle produces a kernel based on 5.4 and 5.15. We're not going to
> introduce one based on 5.10. If Amir stops supporting 5.10, what do we
> do about 5.4? If a bugfix appears that needs to be applied to 5.4-6.1,
> Greg will not let Chandan backport it to 5.4 until Chandan either takes
> responsibility for 5.10, or tricks someone else into do it.
And this is soon going to become a much bigger problem with 6.1-lts
in the near future will start gating fixes flowing back to 5.15,
5.10 and 5.4....
-Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-01 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-28 23:46 [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Filesystem backporting to stable Leah Rumancik
2023-03-01 1:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-03-01 5:37 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2023-03-13 2:34 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-14 13:32 ` Jan Kara
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