Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-26 Thread Nikolai Kondrashov
Hi Hanjun, On 2/26/21 10:03 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2021/2/19 22:45, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: >> Would you be interested in working with the Linux Foundation KernelCI project >> on submitting your build and test results to the common database - KCIDB? > > Yes, we are willing to sent the test

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-26 Thread Hanjun Guo
Hi Nick, Sorry for taking so long to reply you, we had discussions on how to corporate with KCIDB, please see my comments inline. On 2021/2/19 22:45, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: Hi Hanjun, On 2/19/21 10:54 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote: > In specific, we will start from the testing work, using HULK

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-22 Thread Hanjun Guo
On 2021/2/20 17:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 03:02:54PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: On 2021/2/19 17:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: Hi Greg, On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: [...] I want to see

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-22 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 08:00:52AM -0600, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 26.01.2021 [08:29:25 +0100], Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-22 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:44:23AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 2/19/2021 7:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:05:41AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 2/19/2021 12:25 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-22 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
Hi Greg, On 26.01.2021 [08:29:25 +0100], Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2 years > > presents a problem: why would anyone select a 5.10 kernel with 2 > > year LTS

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-21 Thread Jari Ruusu
On Saturday, February 20, 2021 6:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 01:29:21PM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > I have been able to narrow the beginning of the problem to these kernels: > > 4.14.188 ... 4.14.202 > > Same "fix" that went info 4.14.y is also bugging 4.19.y

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 05:05:14PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 01:29:21PM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > On Friday, February 19, 2021 5:23 PM, Jari Ruusu > > wrote: > > > My contribution here is trying to point you guys to right direction. > > > > I have been able

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-20 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 01:29:21PM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On Friday, February 19, 2021 5:23 PM, Jari Ruusu > wrote: > > My contribution here is trying to point you guys to right direction. > > I have been able to narrow the beginning of the problem to these kernels: > 4.14.188 ... 4.14.202

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-20 Thread Jari Ruusu
On Friday, February 19, 2021 5:23 PM, Jari Ruusu wrote: > My contribution here is trying to point you guys to right direction. I have been able to narrow the beginning of the problem to these kernels: 4.14.188 ... 4.14.202 Same "fix" that went info 4.14.y is also bugging 4.19.y kernels. --

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-20 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 03:02:54PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2021/2/19 17:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > > > I want to see companies

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Hanjun Guo
On 2021/2/19 17:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: Hi Greg, On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: [...] I want to see companies _using_ the kernel, and most importantly, _updating_ their devices with it, to know if it is worth to

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/19/2021 7:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:05:41AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> >> >> On 2/19/2021 12:25 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Great! Can you run 'git bisect' on the 4.14.y stable tree to find the > offending change? To be fair, especially with WiFi bugs, you may need to run for hours or days before you are absolutely sure that a particular

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:05:41AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 2/19/2021 12:25 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > >> On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100,

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Jari Ruusu
On Friday, February 19, 2021 1:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Great! Can you run 'git bisect' on the 4.14.y stable tree to find the > offending change? As I tried to explain earlier, that laptop's connection to world is no longer iwlwifi based but ethernet connection to fibre. I can't do

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/19/2021 12:25 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >> On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Nikolai Kondrashov
Hi Hanjun, On 2/19/21 10:54 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote: > In specific, we will start from the testing work, using HULK robot > (reports lots of bugs to mainline kernel) testing framework to test > compile, reboot, functional testing, and will extend to basic > performance regression testing in the

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:57:30AM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On Friday, February 19, 2021 12:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > Did you report that breakage to us and the developers of the driver? > > Sounds like a regression that people would love to hear about and get > > fixed. > > At

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Jari Ruusu
On Friday, February 19, 2021 12:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Did you report that breakage to us and the developers of the driver? > Sounds like a regression that people would love to hear about and get > fixed. At that time I didn't know where the problem was, so I did not report it. I

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:31:49AM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On Friday, February 19, 2021 10:22 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > That's not the goal of stable kernel releases/trees. If the driver > > version that is in 4.19.y does not work for you on release 4.19.0, odds > > of that

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Jari Ruusu
On Friday, February 19, 2021 10:22 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > That's not the goal of stable kernel releases/trees. If the driver > version that is in 4.19.y does not work for you on release 4.19.0, odds > of that "changing" in later stable releases is slim to none. But in-tree iwlwifi

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > [...] > > > > I want to see companies _using_ the kernel, and most importantly, > > _updating_ their devices with it, to know if it is worth to keep around > > for longer

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Hanjun Guo
Hi Greg, On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: [...] I want to see companies _using_ the kernel, and most importantly, _updating_ their devices with it, to know if it is worth to keep around for longer than 2 years. I also, hopefully, want to see how those companies will help me out

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:00:27AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > For me > > > > > only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to > > > > > compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true. > > > > > > > > Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:10:35AM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:44 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > > It was the other way around. Fine working in-tree driver got > > > broken by backported "fixes". I did mention bit-rot. > > > > It did? Please let us stable

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > For me > > > > only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to > > > > compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true. > > > > > > Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That feels very wrong and > > > is not the recommended thing to use the LTS

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Jari Ruusu
On Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:44 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > It was the other way around. Fine working in-tree driver got > > broken by backported "fixes". I did mention bit-rot. > > It did? Please let us stable maintainers know about, we will always > gladly revert problems patches.

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Ondrej Zary
On Thursday 18 February 2021 21:55:34 Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > For me > > > only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to > > > compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true. > > > > Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That feels very wrong and > >

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Scott Branden
Hi Willy, On 2021-02-18 1:00 p.m., Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >> On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Scott Branden
On 2021-02-18 1:39 p.m., Sasha Levin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >> On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/18/2021 1:39 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >> On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Sasha Levin
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800,

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > For me > > only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to > > compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true. > > Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That feels very wrong and > is not the recommended thing to use the LTS kernels for. Well, that's

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Scott Branden
On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: As a company, we are most likely

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not > > > having a

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not > > having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people > > like

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Florian! On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:42:00AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Other difficulty with the LTS version is the frequency it is updated. We > > would not > > pickup the changes that frequently to test. A quarterly, bi-annually, or > > when a critical fix > > is identified would

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/18/2021 9:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not >> having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people >> like you, Greg and other

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not > having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people > like you, Greg and other participants in the stable kernel. What does the LF have

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:19:54PM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > On Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:33 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Usually you pick an LTS kernel for a specific hardware. If it > > works that's great. But you cannot expect hardware to suddenly start to > > work in the middle of a

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/17/2021 11:48 AM, Scott Branden wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 2021-02-17 1:40 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:51:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:30:16AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: Hi Greg, On 2021-01-25

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/18/2021 8:51 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:48:21AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >> On 2021-02-17 1:40 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> Following up on this as I did not hear back from you.  Are you and/or >>> your company willing to help out with the testing of 5.10

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:19:54PM +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > In-tree iwlwifi worked half-ok on early 4.9.y stable. If > connection somehow de-autheticated (out of radio range or > whatever) it crashed the kernel spectacularly. Eventually that was > fixed and in-tree iwlwifi worked fine on 4.9.y

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Jari Ruusu
On Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:33 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Usually you pick an LTS kernel for a specific hardware. If it > works that's great. But you cannot expect hardware to suddenly start to > work in the middle of a stable kernel. Sometimes it happens (PCI IDs) but > that's basically all

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 2/18/2021 3:31 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 08:43:48AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:48:21AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >>> Other difficulty with the LTS version is the frequency it is updated. > > What a stange statement! So basically

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Sasha Levin
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:48:21AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: On 2021-02-17 1:40 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: Following up on this as I did not hear back from you. Are you and/or your company willing to help out with the testing of 5.10 to ensure that it is a LTS kernel? So far I have not

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > The only set of fixes that can be trusted are the "official" stable > > kernels, because they are the only ones that are approved by the patches > > authors themselves. Adding more stuff on top of stable kernels

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Jari Ruusu
Willy Tarreau wrote: > The only set of fixes that can be trusted are the "official" stable > kernels, because they are the only ones that are approved by the patches > authors themselves. Adding more stuff on top of stable kernels is fine > (and done at your own risk), but randomly dropping stuff

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > The only set of fixes that can be trusted are the "official" stable > > kernels, because they are the only ones that are approved by the patches > > authors themselves. Adding more stuff on top of stable kernels

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Why would you backport new features to an old kernel? That's not what > they are there for. For CIP project, this is one of advantages for "supported" boards, as we'll backport patches improving their support as long as those patches are mainline. > > If the CIP project has committed to

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 08:43:48AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:48:21AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > > Other difficulty with the LTS version is the frequency it is updated. What a stange statement! So basically if fixes come in quickly so that customers are not

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! (Second attempt to reply, as first one is not in the archives?!) > > So far the jury is still out for 5.10, are you willing to help with > > this? If not, why are you willing to hope that others are going to do > > your work for you? I am talking to some companies, but am not willing > >

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-18 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:48:21AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 2021-02-17 1:40 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:51:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:30:16AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > >>> Hi Greg, > >>> > >>> >

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-17 Thread Scott Branden
Hi Greg, On 2021-02-17 1:40 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:51:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:30:16AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> >>> On 2021-01-25 11:29 p.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 25,

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-02-17 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:51:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:30:16AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > On 2021-01-25 11:29 p.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > > >> Hi All, >

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-01-26 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Greg, On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:51:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Ok, seriously, this happens every year, and every year we go through the > > > same thing, it's not like this is somehow new, right? > > No, but why do we need to keep playing the same game every year now. > >

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-01-26 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:30:16AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > On 2021-01-25 11:29 p.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2 years presents a

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-01-26 Thread Scott Branden
Hi Greg, On 2021-01-25 11:29 p.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2 years presents a >> problem: >> why would anyone select a 5.10 kernel with 2 year LTS when 5.4

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-01-26 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 1/25/2021 11:29 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2 years presents a >> problem: >> why would anyone select a 5.10 kernel with 2 year LTS when 5.4 kernel has

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-01-26 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > Hi All, > > The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2 years presents a > problem: > why would anyone select a 5.10 kernel with 2 year LTS when 5.4 kernel has a 6 > year LTS. Because they want to use all of the

Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: > The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2 years presents a > problem: > why would anyone select a 5.10 kernel with 2 year LTS when 5.4 kernel has a 6 > year LTS. > > Yet, various unofficial reports indicate it will

5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

2021-01-25 Thread Scott Branden
Hi All, The 5.10 LTS kernel being officially LTS supported for 2 years presents a problem: why would anyone select a 5.10 kernel with 2 year LTS when 5.4 kernel has a 6 year LTS. Yet, various unofficial reports indicate it will be supported for 6 years.  And AOSP has already declared the use