[LTP] Oldest still supported kernel

[xuyang <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Hi
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 5:07 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz 
> <mailto:chrubis@suse.cz>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!
>     > > Is it the oldest version we want to support or even something
>     older?
>     >
>     > I'd like minimum to be at least 3.10.0 / glibc-2.17 (RHEL7).
>
>
> This minimum looks good to me.
>
>     >
>     > Older distros use LTP mostly for regression tests, so it might
>     be acceptable
>     > for users to switch to older release tag, rather than always
>     latest master.
>
>
> I think so. To switch to older release is a better option in that 
> situation.
>
>     >
>     > There's also an option, we create a "legacy" branch for old distros,
>     > and accept only critical fixes (no new tests, rewrites, etc.).
>     It would
>     > be unsupported, but provide place where legacy users can cooperate.
>
>     I was trying to avoid having several active branches for LTP for
>     several
>     reasons. Mainly to avoid people running old LTP on reasonably modern
>     kernels because they were under an impression that older release
>     is more
>     stable. Hence I would like to avoid having this if possible.
>
>
> Yes, to maintain an old LTP branch will also cost more energy, I agree 
> to avoid do that too.
>
> But one more question, if a person posts a patch to fix an older issue 
> which conflicts with the new kernel stuff, what should we do for that?
  In this situation,  I think new kernel stuff has a higher priority if 
older issue is not very serious.
  For Oldest supported , I don't think we must specify a kernel or glibc 
oldest version.

  Kind Regards
  Yang Xu

>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Li Wang



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