| Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Date | Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:30:32 -0700 |
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On 04/16/2017 03:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.49 release. > There are 145 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > let me know. > > --------- > Wait, what? 3.18? Wasn't that kernel dead and forgotten and left to > rot on the side of the road? Yes, it was, but unfortunately, there's a > few million or so devices out there in the wild that still rely on this > kernel. Now, some of their manufacturers and SoC vendors might not be > keeping their kernels up to date very well, but some do actually care > about security and their users, so this release is for them. If you > happen to have a vendor that does not care about their users, go > complain, as odds are, your device is very insecure right now... > > Because of this strange situation, and thanks to some vendors backing > the effort[1], I'll keep 3.18-stable alive in a semi-active mode, doing > releases every once in a while to keep it up to date and working well > based on what is happening in other more well-maintained stable kernels > (hint, use 4.4 or 4.9 or newer PLEASE, if your vendor refuses to do so, > switch vendors, it's the only way they will learn...) I don't know how > long I'll keep doing this, so if you care about 3.18, please contact me > to let me know the expected lifespan of your device. > > And finally, due to the delay from the last 3.18-stable kernel release, > there is a large backlog of patches, this is about 1/2 of the pending > ones so far. I'll be working on catching up to the rest of them over > the next few weeks, and then the updates should be smaller than this > one. > > ok, back to your normal form-letter stable -rc release notice: > --------- > > Responses should be made by Tue Apr 18 08:01:19 UTC 2017. > Anything received after that time might be too late. >
Build results: total: 140 pass: 139 fail: 1 Failed builds: parisc:allmodconfig
Qemu test results: total: 111 pass: 111 fail: 0
Fixing the build failure requires commit 6c8afa88adce ("Input: gscps2 - fix MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE invocation").
Details are available at http://kerneltests.org/builders.
Guenter
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