From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:34:18 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Message-ID: <20160912153418.GA2761@infradead.org> References: <57C78BE9.30009@linaro.org> <20160905111105.GW3950@sirena.org.uk> <20160905140327.a6wgdl3lr42nlww4@thunk.org> <9895277.d39OTXtlqC@avalon> <20160906133429.5ktkvafprbtxr5sd@localhost> <20160906162502.GA15434@roeck-us.net> <20160907083312.GO28922@quack2.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160907083312.GO28922@quack2.suse.cz> Cc: James Bottomley , "ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 10:33:12AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Just to give a comparable numbers for SUSE. The coming SLE12 SP2 release is > based on 4.4 as well. On top of 4.4.19 we currently carry some 4700 patches > which together add/delete some 390k lines. Out of these some 280 patches > are not backports of upstream patches (or at least in the process of going > upstream), adding / deleting some 35k lines. So indeed we do have much less > non-upstream stuff in the distro kernel. OTOH I'd note we still do have a > considerable amount of backported stuff in the product that haven't even > shipped yet... And a not insignificant part of that has been carried around by SuSE for years. Often not submitted upstream or only half-heartedly, and sometimes even rejected. Leading to fun like ioctl numbers added in SuSE and reused differently in mainline.