Re: Status of v4.9

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 01:35:38PM +0100, Mason wrote:
> On 16/01/2017 11:34, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 09:39:39AM +0100, Mason wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Greg,
> >>
> >> A few months ago, you stated that you were considering making v4.9
> >> the latest LTS version.
> >>
> >> http://kroah.com/log/blog/2016/09/06/4-dot-9-equals-equals-next-lts-kernel/
> >>
> >> Neither https://www.kernel.org/ nor https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
> >> list 4.9 as an LTS version yet.
> >>
> >> Could you clear (some of) my confusion?
> > 
> > It's a bit hard for a kernel to be "LTS" when it hasn't even had the
> > chance to move out of the "normal" stable release process, right? :)
> 
> I think it might be worthwhile mentioning somewhere that 4.9 is LTS.
> (My manager thought 4.4 was the latest.)

As you can see by my questions, I haven't come to that final conclusion
yet :)

> > Is there anything in your testing of 4.9 that you feel needs to be
> > resolved before you would feel comfortable using it as a LTS kernel?
> > How has it worked out for your platform and workload?  Any warning flags
> > that you feel would keep it from being a good LTS kernel?
> 
> I see that you back-ported the fix for the HOTPLUG crash regression
> that affected my platform, so thanks for that. Other than that, we're
> getting ready to run a full regression test, so I guess I'll know more
> in a few weeks :-)

Please let me know if you find any issues.

thanks,

greg k-h
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