On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Bither <jonbit...@gmail.com>wrote:
> May be the completely wrong idea, but what if there was an OpenWRT-Kernel > GIT repository holding the branches and modifications required for each > arch. Would allow easy updates and backports from a Trunk branch to an LTS > one. > > > On 04/03/2013 12:31 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 18:16:05 +0200, >> Rafał Miłecki <zaj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Ohh, so there is policy of *not* doing *fixes* updates of the kernel? >>> So we don't update for example from 3.4.30 to 3.4.38 after branching? >>> >>> If so, I had no idea about that, but it sounds pretty wrong. Minor >>> (fixes) updates usually contain regression and security fixes. >>> >> >> I wouldn't say policy as much as observed behavior. >> ______________________________**_________________ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.**org <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org> >> https://lists.openwrt.org/**mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel<https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.**org <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org> > https://lists.openwrt.org/**mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel<https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel> > Jon, That basically exists today already in the buildroot system. It's just not a plain git repo. The patches folders in target/generic and then for each target/<arch> are numerous but relatively organized. Rafa, Imre, Bruno, I'm not convinced that it makes sense to target an LTS kernel every release either, but I firmly believe that an LTS kernel should be targeted at least once every 2 years or so. A policy like this makes it easier to pull upstream *fixes*, in theory, for both maintainers and tinkerers even if that isn't the current modus operandi.
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