On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> wrote:

On 07/13/2016 06:07 PM, Greg KH wrote:

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 01:48:15PM +0900, Alex Shi wrote:

I am thinking if it's possible to share an basic tree which include some
widely wanted backporting features. That could share the testing and review,
then will reduce bugs much more.

Like LTSI already does today? :)

It looks we share some basic ideas on backporting part. But industry need much more backporting features. and new features which out of upstream aren't started from here, since it's a upstream quality without more eyes in community.

If you want more eyes AND more backporting, how about you move ahead to the newer version instead? In the end, if you'll backport most of the code you end up with close to the same code base.

Doing security and minimal security fixes on -stable is a very different endeavor than creating downstream trees full of feature backports.

(We only care about a few features, you might say -- but once you join up with others, who care about a few but different features, you'll eventually end up approximating the kernel from which you're backporting all these features).

-Olof