On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 21:43 +0000, Sasha Levin via Ksummit-discuss wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 01:59:18PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2018, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > > There's no one, for example, who picked up vanilla v4.16 and > > > plans to keep using it for a year. > > > > Actually, at a prior job I would do almost exactly that. > > > > I never intended to go a year without updating, but it would happen > > if nothing came up that was related to the hardware/features I > > was running. > > > > so 'no one uses the Linus kernel is false. > > My point is not that "no one ever uses Linus kernel" but that no one > takes one of those kernels and plans to stick with it for 3 months > until the next one comes up, even if there are updates relevant to > that user..
Actually, I have sometimes done that. My current laptop is running the v4.16 tag now, not because I intended to run it for this long but because I've run into a Round Tuit shortage as far as the -rc candidates go. > Yes, some users will use a .0 release until either Greg releases a > -stable, or until the next -rc is out. > > What I'm trying to say is that there is that the .0 release makes > some people rush poorly tested commits in it even though the .0 > release is not significant in any way. As a milestone, it's extremely significant because it's the cadence from which everything else flows. If we as developers stop taking the -rc cycle seriously, you'll find immediate negative consequences for your stable kernels. And I mean way worse consequences than the odd bad judgment call about a patch that ought not to have gone in right before a Linus release. James
