Message-ID: <1373942486.31067.122.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable
 kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:41:26 +0100
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On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:09 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
[...]=20
> > > How important is the stable releases? Are maintainers willing to do a
> > > little more work now to make sure their subsystems work fine in older
> > > kernels? This isn't the same stable as it was 8 years ago.
> >=20
> > And that annoys the hell out of some Linux companies who feel that the
> > stable kernels compete with them.  So people working for those companie=
s
> > might not get as much help with doing any additional work for stable
> > kernel releases (this is not just idle gossip, I've heard it directly
> > from management's mouths.)
>=20
> Hmm, this is new to me. Really, I thought the whole point of the stable
> releases was to help Linux companies.
[...]

I also heard some managers decided their kernel source packages should
have all the patches squashed together to make them harder to cherry-
pick... could it have been the same company?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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