From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>,
"ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
"ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [LTSI-dev] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:09:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160913120942.GA18307@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160913103814.GQ27946@sirena.org.uk>
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 08:19:31AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > what the next kernel will be. I work with them to show that it doesn't
> > really matter _what_ kernel is picked, if their code is merged upstream,
> > or ready to be merged, the specific kernel number doesn't matter.
>
> In the cases I'm aware of it's more about knowing when the kernel will
> appear so people can commit to integration activities than the version
> number itself - I've never really heard "I need version X", it's always
> been "when will we know which version Greg has chosen?".
Yes, I hear that a lot, so you need to follow up with, "why does it
matter what version Greg picks?", and then their response to me always
is, "so we know what kernel to start to rebase our huge patchsets to
earlier", which again, is the thing we want to keep them from doing!
I got a few emails when I stopped 3.14.y this week along the lines of,
"oops, we were using that kernel, what are we supposed to do now!" Each
time I asked if 4.4 or 4.8 worked for them. And each time I got back a
response a day later along the lines of, "oh wow, yes, it does, we'll
use that."
I have half-a-mind to just skip a LTS kernel for a whole year and see if
anyone even notices, I feel it is being used for all the wrong
reasons...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-13 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-01 2:01 [Ksummit-discuss] " Alex Shi
2016-09-02 1:25 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-09-02 2:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-02 9:59 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-02 9:54 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-02 10:16 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [LTSI-dev] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-09-02 14:42 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " James Bottomley
2016-09-02 14:55 ` Rik van Riel
2016-09-02 15:04 ` James Bottomley
2016-09-02 15:39 ` Rik van Riel
2016-09-02 17:06 ` Bird, Timothy
2016-09-05 1:45 ` NeilBrown
2016-09-05 11:04 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-05 22:44 ` NeilBrown
2016-09-06 0:57 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-06 5:41 ` NeilBrown
2016-09-08 18:33 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [LTSI-dev] " Bird, Timothy
2016-09-08 22:38 ` NeilBrown
2016-09-09 11:01 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-09 22:17 ` NeilBrown
2016-09-12 17:37 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-13 7:46 ` NeilBrown
2016-09-13 17:53 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-02 18:21 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Olof Johansson
2016-09-02 23:35 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-03 5:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-03 10:40 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-04 0:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-04 8:34 ` gregkh
2016-09-04 22:58 ` Amit Kucheria
2016-09-04 23:51 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-05 12:58 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-05 11:11 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-05 14:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-05 14:22 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-09-06 0:35 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-06 15:30 ` James Bottomley
2016-09-06 19:44 ` gregkh
2016-09-06 22:20 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-06 22:34 ` James Bottomley
2016-09-08 18:55 ` Bird, Timothy
2016-09-08 19:19 ` gregkh
2016-09-09 10:45 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-09 11:03 ` gregkh
2016-09-09 11:48 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-06 23:23 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-06 13:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-06 16:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-09-06 16:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-06 22:39 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-07 8:33 ` Jan Kara
2016-09-07 8:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-09-07 18:44 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-08 17:06 ` Frank Rowand
2016-09-09 10:32 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-09 15:21 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-12 15:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-06 16:46 ` Olof Johansson
2016-09-08 8:34 ` Linus Walleij
2016-09-08 8:55 ` Vinod Koul
2016-09-09 14:32 ` Rob Herring
2016-09-09 14:23 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <2181684.5VzIQ6DWv4@amdc1976>
2016-09-07 9:32 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-09-07 13:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-09-07 18:49 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-09 15:06 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-02 23:29 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-02 19:16 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-09-03 0:05 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-05 9:28 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-09-21 6:58 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-21 9:23 ` gregkh
2016-09-21 14:52 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-21 15:28 ` gregkh
2016-09-21 18:50 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-22 3:15 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-21 18:22 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-21 18:54 ` Linus Walleij
2016-09-21 19:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-22 0:43 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-22 5:20 ` gregkh
2016-09-22 12:56 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-09-22 16:22 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-22 22:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-23 12:28 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-09-23 13:27 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [LTSI-dev] " Alex Shi
2016-09-23 13:40 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-09-23 14:40 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Mark Brown
2016-09-21 13:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-21 15:23 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-21 15:33 ` gregkh
2016-09-21 19:16 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-02 13:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-02 19:31 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-09-02 19:42 ` gregkh
2016-09-02 20:06 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-09-03 2:04 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-06 7:20 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [LTSI-dev] " Tsugikazu Shibata
2016-09-10 12:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-12 16:27 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-12 17:14 ` Greg KH
2016-09-12 23:45 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-13 3:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-13 10:14 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-13 13:19 ` Levin, Alexander
2016-09-13 6:19 ` Greg KH
2016-09-13 10:38 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-13 12:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-09-13 12:20 ` Josh Boyer
2016-09-13 13:12 ` Greg KH
2016-09-13 16:23 ` Bird, Timothy
2016-09-13 19:02 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-14 14:47 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-20 5:15 ` Tsugikazu Shibata
2016-09-21 8:46 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-13 12:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-09-13 19:21 ` Mark Brown
2016-09-14 1:49 ` Greg KH
2016-09-14 3:00 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-12 4:12 ` Alex Shi
2016-09-12 16:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-09-13 2:39 ` Alex Shi
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