Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16T02:41:26Z

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On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:09 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
[...]
> > > How important is the stable releases? Are maintainers willing to do a
> > > little more work now to make sure their subsystems work fine in older
> > > kernels? This isn't the same stable as it was 8 years ago.
> >
> > And that annoys the hell out of some Linux companies who feel that the
> > stable kernels compete with them. So people working for those companies
> > might not get as much help with doing any additional work for stable
> > kernel releases (this is not just idle gossip, I've heard it directly
> > from management's mouths.)
>
> Hmm, this is new to me. Really, I thought the whole point of the stable
> releases was to help Linux companies.
[...]

I also heard some managers decided their kernel source packages should
have all the patches squashed together to make them harder to cherry-
pick... could it have been the same company?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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