On 2016-09-15 17:17, Paul Sherwood wrote:
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Just yesterday there was a very interesting post about backports and
long term stable kernels on LWN [2]. Greg is quoted there 
considering:

Oops - I gave the wrong link:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/700530/7f1c21b0fd40489e/

"But if we didn't provide an LTS, would companies constantly update
their kernels to newer releases to keep up with the security and
bugfixes? That goes against everything those managers/PMs have ever
been used to in the past, yet it's actually the best thing they could
do."