Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:

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As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not
having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people
like you, Greg and other participants in the stable kernel.

What does the LF have to do with this?

We are here, on the mailing lists, working with everyone.  Just test the
-rc releases we make and let us know if they work or not for you, it's
not a lot of "coordination" needed at all.

Otherwise, if no one is saying that they are going to need these for 6
years and are willing to use it in their project (i.e. and test it),
there's no need for us to maintain it for that long, right?

Greg, please remember I expressed I really need them for slightly more than
3 years (say 3.5-4) :-) I'm fine with helping a bit more as time permits if
this saves me from having to take over these kernels after you, like in the
past, but I cannot engage on the regularity of my availability.

Overall I think that a lot of people completely underestimate the amount
of work it requires to maintain stable kernels, and how much it could be
distributed. By having a bunch of users participate a little bit more
(e.g. by sometimes backporting the patches that are essential to them,
by testing what's relevant to their use case), it already offloads a lot
of work. I don't think the extra work requires to be much organized if
there are enough participants to share the efforts.

Regards,
Willy

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