[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:13:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 05:21:30PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> > the latest stable kernel.  (But even if they do, apparently many
> > device vendors aren't bothering to merge in changes from the SOC's BSP
> > kernel, even if the BSP kernel is getting -stable updates.)
> 
> It would be pretty irresponsible for device vendors to be merging BSP
> trees, they're generally development things with ongoing feature updates
> that might interact badly with things the system integrator has done
> rather than something stable enough to just merge constantly.

So the question is who actually uses -stable kernels, and does it make
sense for it even to be managed in a git tree?

Very few people will actually be merging them, and in fact maybe
having a patch queue which is checked into git might actually work
better, since it sounds like most people are just cherry-picking
specific patches.

						- Ted