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

Sasha Levin
2018-10-10T18:49:51Z

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:40:39AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>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.

Keep in mind that it learns based on your choices, so maybe in a while
it will be a perfect fit :)

Maybe to make it easier, just reply with NAK on the patch(es) you don't
want in the tree and I'll drop them.

I was discussing more about the general case and stable tree policy
rather than drivers/input and AUTOSEL, and didn't mean to try and
dictate what we'll take or not. Sorry!

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Thanks,
Sasha