Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes

Steven Rostedt
2018-04-17T14:15:02Z

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:04:36 +0000
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> wrote:

> The solution to this, in my opinion, is to automate the whole selection
> and review process. We do selection using AI, and we run every possible
> test that's relevant to that subsystem.
>
> At which point, the amount of work a human needs to do to review a patch
> shrinks into something far more managable for some maintainers.

I guess the real question is, who are the stable kernels for? Is it just
a place to look at to see what distros should think about. A superset
of what distros would take. Then distros would have a nice place to
look to find what patches they should look at. But the stable tree
itself wont be used. But it's not being used today by major distros
(Red Hat and SuSE). Debian may be using it, but that's because the
stable maintainer for its kernels is also the Debian maintainer.

Who are the customers of the stable trees? They are the ones that
should be determining the "equation" for what goes into it.

Personally, I use stable as a one off from mainline. Like I mentioned
in another email. I'm currently on 4.15.x and will probably move to
4.16.x next. Unless there's some critical bug announcement, I update my
machines once a month. I originally just used mainline, but that was a
bit too unstable for my work machines ;-)

-- Steve