On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 21:22 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 3/3/22 15:38, Joe Perches wrote: > > One argument is that churn leads to difficulty in backporting > > fixes to older 'stable' versions. > > > > I think the churn argument is overstated. > > I'm often backporting patches to older kernels and I think the churn argument > has not been emphasized enough. Backporting patches is a normal aspect of a > product lifecycle since a kernel version is chosen when development of a > product starts and bugfixes are cherry-picked from upstream selectively. Stable backporting is almost certainly what people get _paid_ to do. IMO the most important tree is the current one not backports to stable.
