Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Filesystem backporting to stable

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On Sun 12-03-23 22:34:00, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > How about we EOL the XFS code in the releases that nobody wants so that
> > patches can keep flowing to the ones that are still wanted?
> 
> We're in the process of going away from 6 year kernels which will in
> turn lessen the number of parallel trees we support.
> 
> OTOH, this raises the question of what Oracle plans to do after 5.4 goes
> EOL?

Well, I guess what every other distro does with old kernels. Fix whatever
customers report + a bunch of CVE fixes. We still support 2.6.16 so 5.4 is
"piece'a cake" ;)

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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