Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? | From | Hanjun Guo <> | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:14:52 +0800 |
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On 2021/2/20 17:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 03:02:54PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: >> On 2021/2/19 17:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: >>>> Hi Greg, >>>> >>>> On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> I want to see companies _using_ the kernel, and most importantly, >>>>> _updating_ their devices with it, to know if it is worth to keep around >>>>> for longer than 2 years. I also, hopefully, want to see how those >>>>> companies will help me out in the testing and maintenance of that kernel >>>>> version in order to make supporting it for 6 years actually possible. >>>>> >>>>> So, are you planning on using 5.10? Will you will be willing to help >>>>> out in testing the -rc releases I make to let me know if there are any >>>>> problems, and to help in pointing out and backporting any specific >>>>> patches that your platforms need for that kernel release? >>>> >>>> We(Huawei) are willing to commit resources to help out in testing the >>>> stable -rc releases, and to help to backport patches for stable kernels. >>> >>> Wonderful! >>> >>>> 5.10 stable kernel will be used for openEuler [1] kernel and also inside >>>> Huawei. From customer's feedback, it's very important to see the stable >>>> kernel we used to be maintained for 6 years in the community, and we >>>> will use 5.10 kernel for at least 6 years, so we are willing to help >>>> you and help ourselves :) >>>> >>>> In specific, we will start from the testing work, using HULK robot >>>> (reports lots of bugs to mainline kernel) testing framework to test >>>> compile, reboot, functional testing, and will extend to basic >>>> performance regression testing in the future. >>> >>> Great! Do you all need an email notification when the -rc releases come >>> out for the stable trees, or can you trigger off of the -rc stable git >>> tree? Different CI systems work in different ways :) >> >> We can trigger the test when you updated the -rc stable git tree, >> by monitoring new commits for the stable branches. So if you push >> all the commits at once for -rc stable branches, then our CI system >> can work well. > > I do push to the -rc branches, but those branches are rebased, and I do > "intermediate" pushes as well. Meaning I push to have CI systems run on > the existing patch queue at times that are not only the "main" -rc > release periods. > > Watch the branches for a few weeks to get an idea of how they work if > you are curious.
Will run our CI system based on your -rc branch to see if anything doesn't work, then update our system as needed.
Thanks Hanjun
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