On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 4:42 AM Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marq...@arm.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > On 23 Mar 2022, at 22:17, Bruce Ashfield via lists.yoctoproject.org
> <bruce.ashfield=gmail....@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 6:30 AM Richard Purdie <
> richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-03-23 at 08:38 +0000, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
> > > Hi Paulo
> > >
> > > > On 22 Mar 2022, at 16:52, Paulo Sherring via lists.yoctoproject.org
> <pauloasherring=gmail....@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello Diego, Bertrand,
> > > > Just confirmed that by bringing these changes into hardknott, the
> > > > modules get correctly probed on bootup.
> > >
> > > Great thanks for the info.
> > >
> > > @Bruce: Maybe it would make sense to backport this as hardknott is LTS
> ?
> > > If yes, please ping me if you need support to do it.
> >
> > hardknott is not LTS, it is about to go EOL.
> >
> >
> > Agreed. I don't like to leave things broken either .. but we really
> shouldn't encourage people to keep using the branches that are going out of
> support. If I fix this one, there will be other issues that aren't
> fixed/patched in the future (and potentially security issues) .. so I'm
> leaning towards leaving this not backported.
>
> The branch is still supported at the moment and is broken.
> I do not think it is right to say “we will stop fixing issues a bit before
> the branch is out of support” as this is equivalent to reducing the support
> time.
> Out of support is more something which should be works but does not get
> any update or security fixes, here we have something broken while under
> support.
>
>
Broken is a far too dramatic description of this issue.

Also, when talking about support, we are talking about OEcore / Yocto
Project support. The rest of the layers in the ecosystem do this sort of
support as best effort. So a gentle reminder that we should all be careful
with expectations and the tone of our communications.



> Anyway the fix is simple and the person is unblocked so it will be easy
> for the next one to solve it, so my argumentation is more in general around
> what should the end of support date mean for users.
>

I have queued the change, but my reminder about expectations stands.

Bruce



>
> Cheers
> Bertrand
>
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await
> thee at its end
> > - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II
> >
> >
> > 
>
>

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