On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:48:53PM +0000, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > The first one makes this easier for you, the second and third are not > > always true. There have been big patchsets get merged into longterm > > stable kernel releases that were done because they were "optimizations" > > and the maintainer of that subsystem and I discussed it and deemed it > > was a valid thing to accept. This happens every 6 months or so if you > > look closely. The mm subsystem is known for this :) > > so major mm subsystem optimizations will go in in the middle of a > LTS between "random" sublevel releases ? Atleast for 4.4-4.4.13 I was not > able to pin-point such a change (based on files-changes/lines-added/removed) > could you point me to the one or other ? would help to see why we missed it. 4.4 hasn't been around long enough for this to happen yet, I think it happened in 4.1, or maybe 3.14, or possibly 3.10, can't remember, but it should be obvious by the changelogs. thanks, greg "just one more email!" k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
