On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 05:48:23PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Another knot that I think we need to slice through is the question of > what to do when support for LTS kernels becomes sparse. Case in point: > > Oracle produces a kernel based on 5.4 and 5.15. We're not going to > introduce one based on 5.10. If Amir stops supporting 5.10, what do we > do about 5.4? If a bugfix appears that needs to be applied to 5.4-6.1, > Greg will not let Chandan backport it to 5.4 until Chandan either takes > responsibility for 5.10, or tricks someone else into do it. And this is soon going to become a much bigger problem with 6.1-lts in the near future will start gating fixes flowing back to 5.15, 5.10 and 5.4.... -Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
