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On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 05:19:59PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Sasha Levin via Ksummit-discuss wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:46:26PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> >On Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:41:56 +0200,
>> >Sasha Levin wrote:
>> >> So right now I'm lagging a few weeks behind upstream. If I limit it t=
o
>> >> patches that are at least 1 month old will that help with your concer=
ns?
>> >
>> >A few weeks after rc-release or the final release?
>> >If it's the latter, that should be fine.
>>
>> A few weeks after a given patch was merged upstream. The tricky part is
>> if I wait a month from final release then the relevant stable tree is
>> already EOL.
>
>If the thing is close to EOL then it wont get the next fix or worse the fi=
x
>for the subtly broken one either. It really does not matter at all.

Given that we release a kernel every ~2 months and that the Stable tree
goes EOL a week or two after the next kernel is released, we will
essentially ignore half of the release cycle (in particular the -rc
ones, when more fixes come in).


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Thanks,
Sasha=