On 2019/6/18 13:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:47:08AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: >> >> >> On 2019/6/18 4:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 02:16:11AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: >>>> At last, this is RFC patch v1, which means it is not suitable for >>>> merging soon... I'm still working on it, testing its stability >>>> these days and hope these patches get merged for 5.3 LTS >>>> (if 5.3 is a LTS version). >>> >>> Why would 5.3 be a LTS kernel? >>> >>> curious as to how you came up with that :) >> >> My personal thought is about one LTS kernel one year... >> Usually 5 versions after the previous kernel...(4.4 -> 4.9 -> 4.14 -> 4.19), >> which is not suitable for all historical LTSs...just prepare for 5.3... > > I try to pick the "last" kernel that is released each year, which > sometimes is 5 kernels, sometimes 4, sometimes 6, depending on the > release cycle. > > So odds are it will be 5.4 for the next LTS kernel, but we will not know > more until it gets closer to release time. Thanks for kindly explanation :) Anyway, I will test these patches, land to our commerical products and try the best efforts on making it more stable for Linux upstream to merge. Thanks, Gao Xiang > > thanks, > > greg k-h >
