From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CD86D145 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCB.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hcb.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.41]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rAJ3Yp9r009743 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:34:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.224.162.242] (128.224.162.242) by ALA-HCB.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.347.0; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:34:50 -0800 Message-ID: <528ADC43.5050406@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:34:27 +0800 From: Robert Yang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Ashfield , Otavio Salvador , Saul Wold , Richard Purdie References: <1383312696-421-1-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <5283F507.7050607@linux.intel.com> <5284F5D1.4010004@linux.intel.com> <528A0755.2060100@windriver.com> <528A2927.7070009@windriver.com> <528A32C4.3030306@intel.com> <528A396A.6020500@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <528A396A.6020500@windriver.com> Cc: Paul Eggleton , OpenEmbedded Core Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lttng-modules: Update revision to grab last bugfix releases X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:34:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Bruce, Here is the log status of the kernel layer between dora and master (18 commits). I wonder are there any serious problems that we must upgrade it ? $ git log dora..master --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline meta/recipes-kernel 9a9a597 lttng-tools: Fixes incorrect path of ptest cases e1e1ee5 linux-yocto/3.10: meta: ARM: OMAP3: Add USB PHY driver for Beagleboard 779dec9 linux-yocto-rt/3.10: fix ntp merge issue 89c986c linux-yocto/3.10: meta: ARM: OMAP3: Add USB PHY driver for Beagleboard 8a03d59 sysvinit: adjust boot sequence and remove hack from udev e9ec153 linux-yocto/3.10: fix qemuarm boot and spurious mips build warning baf005b linux-yocto/3.10: common-pc: add missing dependencies for BRCMSMAC dd361f0 linux-yocto/3.8: add crystalforest bsp legacy block drivers configurations 1fe7bca linux-yocto/3.10: haswell-wc and crystalforest support a23c7e9 linux-yocto-3.10: bump to 3.10.17 and -rt11 3129619 lttng-tools: make ptest able to work on target 5e42796 recipes: Remove PR = r0 from all recipes 2570f13 perf: flag __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ to include int-ll64.h for mips64 56cc2f2 linux-yocto/3.10: MinnowBoard support db1d37a perf: flag __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ to include int-ll64.h for powerpc64 cd414c0 kmod: Update to Rev 15 via git e83640d kmod: Add patch to fix seperate build dir of ptest 0f431a3 kmod-native: use bswap to work on older Linux hosts // Robert On 11/18/2013 11:59 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On 13-11-18 10:50 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Saul Wold wrote: >>> On 11/18/2013 06:50 AM, Robert Yang wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/18/2013 10:18 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Robert Yang >>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This should be considered for Dora as well as it fixes the deadlock >>>>>>> and building with 3.12 kernels. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Otavio, thanks for suggesting this for dora, but dora's kernel is >>>>>> 3.10.11, >>>>>> and this is an update for lttng-modules, I'm not sure whether dora needs >>>>>> this. >>>>>> >>>>>> Add Saul in the CC list. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I think Dora ought to get the new 3.10 kernel updates; this can go >>>>> along side with it. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Otavio, >>>> >>>> I'm sorry, but I'm not sure whether we need update dora's kernel from >>>> 3.10.11 >>>> to 3.10.17, since we seldom do the package update for a stable branch, >>>> let's wait for others' comments:-). >>>> >>> This is correct, I do not think we will be updating the kernel for a stable >>> branch. >> >> This is wrong. We should update to 3.10.17 as this is the LTS release, >> otherwise what is the point of us using a LTS at all? > > Obviously I'll be maintaining the LTS release in master, but that > maintenance gets a mix of bug fixes and features associated with the > upstream maintenance + LTSI + BSP requirements. > > I've sent patches for the sustained branches in the past, and can > do it here as well. But to do it properly, there really needs to be a > dedicated kernel repository, since things like the LTSI import and > new BSP support will be mixed into the tree if a single 3.10 repo > is used. > > I'm willing to split the repo and do -stable korg release updates, but > at some point there are only so many repositories and versions that > should be maintained at one time. As to what that number is, I don't have > a firm one in mind. > > At a minimum, it would be safe for the dora maintenance branch to take > my latest kernel -stable imports, but in the not to distant future, > it would need a separate maintenance stream. > > Cheers, > > Bruce > >> > > >