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On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:17:17 +0000
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> wrote:

> I thought we agreed that this is bad? We wanted users to be closer to
> mainline, and we can't do it without bringing -stable closer to mainline
> as well.

I guess the question comes down to, what do the users of stable kernels
want? For my machines, I always stay one or two releases behind
mainline. Right now my kernels are on 4.15.x, and will probably jump to
4.16.x the next time I upgrade my machines. I'm fine with something
breaking every so often as long as it's not data corruption (although I
have lots of backups of my systems in case that happens, just a PITA to
fix it). I only hit bugs on these boxes probably once a year at most in
doing so. But I mostly do what other kernel developers do and that
means the bugs I would mostly hit, other developers hit before their
code is released.

Thus, if stable users are fine with being regression compatible with
mainline, then I'm fine with it too.

-- Steve