On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 05:21:30PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> the latest stable kernel.  (But even if they do, apparently many
> device vendors aren't bothering to merge in changes from the SOC's BSP
> kernel, even if the BSP kernel is getting -stable updates.)

It would be pretty irresponsible for device vendors to be merging BSP
trees, they're generally development things with ongoing feature updates
that might interact badly with things the system integrator has done
rather than something stable enough to just merge constantly.