From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED48C4332F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232638AbiKJIWR (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:22:17 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45840 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232701AbiKJIWP (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:22:15 -0500 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D61FB1FCC4 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94AFCB820FC for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:22:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBC76C433D6; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:22:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1668068531; bh=8m7zk4H++U5f+wKPyIGrnKbcJ/At1hVuWnbMbh5ZxYE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=nCMDTGfMeM69E4Mx3DpHqUuM4jCGy0q6RzGYGMTTH1bAQEJyYnH1x8jef3s5oqWPf I04wZc6YXRSEkChDVbub2BcmKB2qenISSLjHnrtxmvIDvWG22H9BWDqRjriRTVGhmv 5X/u0XpP3AniML4UeGLK7PwAiSTmPC6DCMZd7qOQ= Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:22:08 +0100 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: "Tyler Hicks (Microsoft)" Cc: Suleiman Souhlal , sashal@kernel.org, Sangwhan Moon , stable@vger.kernel.org, Kelsey Steele , Allen Pais Subject: Re: LTS 5.15 EOL Date Message-ID: References: <20221028194019.vda2ei2nsqsysvby@sequoia> <20221109234526.r5raofrnzddggarw@sequoia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20221109234526.r5raofrnzddggarw@sequoia> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 05:45:26PM -0600, Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) wrote: > On 2022-10-29 08:28:55, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:40:19PM -0500, Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) wrote: > > > On 2022-10-20 10:26:06, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 08:25:35AM +0900, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I saw that the projected EOL of LTS 5.15 is Oct 2023. > > > > > How likely is it that the date will be extended? I'm guessing it's > > > > > pretty likely, given that Android uses it. > > > > > > > > Android is the only user that has talked to me about this kernel > > > > version so far. Please see: > > > > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/03/helping-out-with-lts-kernel-releases/ > > > > for what I require in order to keep an LTS kernel going longer than 2 > > > > years. > > > > > > Microsoft is also interested in a longer lifetime for v5.15 LTS. An > > > additional year should meet our needs. > > > > Wonderful, thanks for letting us know. > > > > > We are aware of your "Helping Out ..." blog post and have been making > > > improvements to be of more assistance. Kelsey and Allen (Cc'ed) have > > > been doing -rc testing of v5.15 -rc releases and reporting the results > > > to the list, on behalf of Microsoft. Testing of the -rc releases is > > > mostly manual at this point, so we don't get every release tested before > > > the release happens, but we're working on improving our processes and > > > having builds/tests kick off automatically so that you can rely on us > > > even more. We should have a much better system in place to help with > > > testing and reporting by the time Oct 2023 rolls around. :) > > > > Don't you all use kernelci already? Doesn't that fit into your testing > > environment already to make this easier? > > You're right that we provide kernelci resources for the broader > community but we use something different internally. > > > > > And yes, I have seen the testing results, thank you for that. If you > > all want to be added to the initial -rc1 email announcement to help > > trigger any build systems that way, just let me know. > > Thanks. I had planned to watch for new pushes to the linux-stable-rc.git > branches. If that doesn't work for some reason, we'll take you up on the > email offer. Watch out when using that tree, it is rebased all the time and contains intermediate steps before the "real" -rc releases happen. It is there for systems that can not handle quilt series. good luck! greg k-h