Re: Uses of Linux backports in the industry

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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -lkml, that list is overfull anyway ...
>
> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 19:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Me and Julia are working on a paper which evaluates use of Coccinelle
>> on backports, a preliminary draft of such paper can be found on github
>> [0]. We are making some tweaks to this, one of which is covering the
>> uses of Linux backports [1] in the industry, for this we'd like to try
>> to get feedback as to where and how folks are using backports. Please
>> let me and Julia know -- or if the information is not sensitive please
>> feel free to just reply to this thread and share with others. All
>> feedback is greatly appreciated. If you are OK in having us list or
>> generalize your usage please indicate so.
>
> We've just published one of our internal git trees that is actually
> based on backports:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/

Great thanks! Any chance you can elaborate a bit on how its used? Some
verbiage we can use perhaps to explain, in the context from silicon
manufacturing / testing / production, etc.

 Luis
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