Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 24/58] Input: atakbd - fix Atari CapsLock behaviour

Dmitry Torokhov
2018-10-10T18:40:45Z

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 08:28:40PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 02:11:48PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > I think Greg's last estimate was that about 1/3 of the kernels in the
> > wild are custom based on a kernel.org stable kernel, which means that we
> > have no visibility as to what they do with the kernel. If you don't know
> > who your users are, how can you prioritize some subsystems over others?
>
> The numbers I had was 75% of the images a major cloud provider was using
> was either a kernel.org stable kernel release, or Debian. The remaining
> 25% was an "enterprise" kernel including CentOS.
>
> Also note that all Android devices are now required to follow the stable
> kernel releases as well, so add a few more million to that number :)
>
> That being said, for a well-maintained subsystem like Input, whose
> maintainer almost always marks patches for stable releases, having them
> picked up by the autobot is unusual. Dmitry, if you want your subsytem
> to be excluded, just let Sasha know, other subsystems have been excluded
> at the maintainer's request, and that's fine.

I am hesitant to request to exclude input from autosel just yet, on an
account that I might miss something. But I would like autosel to acquire
more smarts and be less trigger happy. I think it would be for the best
for everyone.

Thanks.

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Dmitry