[Ksummit-discuss] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Fri Sep 9 10:32:30 UTC 2016


On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:06:22AM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 09/07/16 11:44, Mark Brown wrote:

> > As people keep saying that's not really entirely it - the timescales on
> > consumer hardware are *much* tighter than those on server hardware which
> > does make a big difference to what you can do here. 

> You might be surprised about server hardware. I had a project where I
> had to add kernel support (in a proprietary unix) to a release that
> shipped before there was any hardware to test on.

Right, and there's some consumer hardware that turns much slower for
various reasons but on average...
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