https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218006 --- Comment #6 from Theodore Tso (tytso@xxxxxxx) --- Unfortunately the 4.14 kernel was released in 2017, which is over six years ago. Most companies where you can pay $$$ to get support for Linux distributions based on 4.14 are EOL'ing products based on 4.14. As far upstream kernel developers who are essentially volunteers when people ask them for free help, in general, upstream kernel developers do not support LTS kernels, and certainly not an LTS kernel as old as 4.14. If there is someone is willing to be the ext4 upstream stable backports maintainer, then that person might be willing to provide limited support for LTS kernels --- but the 4.14 LTS upstream kernel is planned to be EOL'ed in January 2024, and I had stopped running gce-xfstests on 4.14 LTS kernels about a year or so ago. I barely have time to run gce-xfststs on LTS kernels for 6.1, 5.15 and 5.10 every quarter or two, and if someone were to volunteer to become ext4 stable backports maintainer, I'd encourage them to focus on 6.6 and 6.1 LTS kernels, with 5.10 and 5.15 LTS kernels as a lower priority (because most commercial companies are going to be moving off of 5.10 LTS in the near future). But volunteer support for 4.14 LTS? TO be honest, that's extremely unlikely. *If* there is a company that has a misguided business reason to support the 4.14 LTS kernel, then of course an employee of that company can certainly fund an engineer to to do all of the support that they need. But quite frankly, I'd be encouraging that company to rethink their business case for supporting the 4.14 kernel. It would be probably far more cost effective to migrate their customers to a non-pre-historic kernel such as the 6.6 LTS kernel. -- You may reply to this email to add a comment. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
