From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 00:35:42 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Olof Johansson Message-ID: <20160902233542.GM3950@sirena.org.uk> References: <57C78BE9.30009@linaro.org> <20160902012531.GB28461@sasha-lappy> <20160902095417.GJ3950@sirena.org.uk> <1472827326.2519.14.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fjEAjMKpll6GDq3U" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: James Bottomley , "ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --fjEAjMKpll6GDq3U Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 11:21:38AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:42 AM, James Bottomley > > It's crazy because it encourages precisely the wrong behaviour: vendors > > target this tree not upstream. > The one case where it is warranted is for features that went in since > the last LTS release. > Pushing vendors all the way to target a non-LTS release is a bit more > aggressive that needed, in my opinion. Which is basically what people are doing for the most part - the older kernels are either the latest Android baseline (which is effectively the latest LTS to people in that part of the game) or products already quite far down the development cycle and just getting a bit of polish. --fjEAjMKpll6GDq3U Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXygzKAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQsg8H/0D4NJ8un8p5dT28MuJjapLb KqClJLFRMRPuW+SJgBL6t9eLVOR0HoGqxVAaXzyg//r5K39xLon+fuhr8dO/ieC9 fIOwkHVxvenNh3wlytTqyOkVpDNB6uIUja+8lre/gP/zDokEWH25EvDMsEGljmxC XsmsIxourxTPUWNrXorM6UfiNUpRvDJiym3u8iM7eSEjPJWTNW6byJDuMbOKL3N7 4VL0Fo2L7BtvliQvFaHp5jd5WTHmlQZKJfRe3m+sR/M1aHZz4z+VUZCUuS1pq9sT V8X8DlPgTBuQxC1V4eYwDhqtLmeJYqnb9sGAKw8v12Ld6b1IQBWxLGYXuhyM5K4= =GnDS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fjEAjMKpll6GDq3U--