On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 04:02:02PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 07:43:07PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:39:48AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > > Greg, what do you think about LTSI? > > > > Is it proper feature to add it? For it, still do I need ACK from mm > > > > developers? > > > > > > It's already in LTSI, as it's in the 3.4 kernel, right? > > > > Right. But as I look, it seems to be based on 3.4.11 which doesn't have > > recent bug fix and enhances and current 3.4.16 also doesn't include it. > > You can ask for those bugfixes to get backported to the stable/longterm > kernel tree, see Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do > this properly. > > > Just out of curiosity. > > > > Is there any rule about update period in long-term kernel? > > I mean how often you release long-term kernel. > > About once a week lately. > > > Is there any rule about update period in LTSI kernel based on long-term > > kernel? > > No, the LTSI kernel work has been slow due to the lack of time on my > part lately. > > > If I get the answer on above two quesion, I can expect later what LTSI > > kernel > > version include feature I need. > > > > Another question. > > For example, There is A feature in mainline and A has no problem but > > someone invents new wheel "B" which is better than A so it replace A totally > > in recent mainline. As following stable-kernel rule, it's not a real bug fix > > so I guess stable kernel will never replace A with B. > > That is correct. > > > It means LTSI never get a chance to use new wheel. Right? > > No, you can submit the same patches for the LTSI kernel as well, they > will probably be accepted as the rules are much more "loose" for the > LTSI tree compared to the normal stable/longterm kernel rules. Which is > the primary reason it is around. > > Hope this helps, > > greg k-h
Thanks, Greg! -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
